2023-08-22 12:25:34
The environmental mayors of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, and Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, will not participate in their party’s summer days this week in Le Havre, due to the arrival of rapper Médine, Agence France-Presse has learned ( AFP), Monday August 21, with their relatives, confirming information from L’Express.
Ms Barseghian considers that “Medina has too ambiguous a position on anti-Semitism”, explained to AFP a spokesperson for the mayor of Strasbourg. An allusion to the artist’s recent tweet, which revived accusations of anti-Semitism against him for having called the essayist Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of deportees, “resKHANpee”in a message on X (ex-Twitter). The rapper had apologized for this “unsuitable formula, which must have offended people”.
The Alsatian councilor “had pleaded for the cancellation of the participation” from the rapper to the summer days of the environmentalist party, “but this is not the option that was chosen”added the same source.
On the Gironde side, Mr. Hurmic announced in a brief press release that he “will stay[t] alongside the people of Bordeaux this week” due to the heat wave, while affirming: “Anti-Semitism, wherever it comes from, is an infamy to be fought. « (…) We have too many challenges to overcome to disperse ourselves in futile polemics., said the mayor. His entourage confirming that this decision is “particularly linked to the controversy that has arisen” of the rapper’s tweet.
“Not an act of demand”, says the party
For the party leadership, these two absences are not “not at all an act of claim or opposition [interne] »told AFP the organizer of the summer days, Léa Balage El Mariky. “Everyone has the right to express a different sensibility”tempers a close friend of Marine Tondelier, the secretary general.
Green MP Sandrine Rousseau said on Tuesday that her party “could have thought about the fact that Medina did not come” on summer days. “The tweet he made was a game-changer,” she explained on BFM-TV – RMC. “Now he is invited, we have to go all the way”she continued, judging that“we will have to test” Medina to find out if he is really anti-Semitic. “He apologized, I think it’s a first step, now we have to work with him to find out if he understood the anti-Semitic nature of this tweet, which he did not say”developed the member for Paris.
She also recalled that the rapper “evolved on homophobia” in the past, Ms. Rousseau wished “that he evolves on the anti-Semitic question”claiming that “everyone has the right to change their positions”.
Despite the dissension within the party, Ms. Tondelier maintained her debate with the artist at the end of the day on Thursday, while warning that she would be “extremely attentive to what Medina will say” on this occasion and “the days that will follow”.
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