2023-08-23 15:42:00
The organizers of the Les Solidarités festival, in Namur, announced that they had deprogrammed the Norman rapper “for the sake of appeasement”.
By IM with AFP The rapper Médine, accused of anti-Semitism after a tweet, was deprogrammed from a Belgian festival. © Cedric JACQUOT / MAXPPP / PHOTOPQR/L’EST REPUBLICAIN/MAXPP Published on 08/23/2023 at 3:42 p.m.
New episode in the controversy around the French rapper Médine. The Belgian festival Les Solidarités indicated in a press release on Wednesday August 23 that it had decided to deprogram the artist. The organizers of the festival in Namur explain “to give up the arrival” of the rapper, “with a certain consternation but for the sake of appeasement”.
“Today, following a tweet – the content of which we do not share – and despite the artist’s apologies and explanations, a wave of reactions, sometimes hateful, sometimes more balanced, swept the web. and were covered by the press. In spite of ourselves, the festival is now a victim of this”, add the organizers.
Médine is a controversial rapper in France, already accused in the past of “homophobic” positions or accused of “Islamist”. In a message two weeks ago on the social network X (formerly Twitter), he called the essayist Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of deportees, “resKHANpée”. An expression that he later regretted, denying himself of being anti-Semitic. He renewed his apologies in two interviews with the French press on Wednesday, on the eve of his participation in a political debate at the summer days of the EELV (ecologists) party in his hometown of Le Havre.
The rapper regretted his tweet
“Anti-Semitism is a poison, I have been fighting it for a long time,” the 40-year-old singer told the newspaper on Wednesday. The Parisian. About the controversial tweet, he adds: “It’s a mistake, I admit it”. He says he “didn’t have his family history in mind” when he posted the “awkward tweet” in response to a message from Ms Khan calling it “rubbish”.
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Several figures from the Belgian political class seized on Tuesday the controversy that swells in France, a centrist deputy seeing in the fact of tolerating the words of Medina a way of “trivializing evil”. Georges-Louis Bouchez, the president of the French-speaking liberals, one of the parties of the coalition in power, had implicitly asked for the deprogramming of Medina in Namur. “Can we ask for a little decency by not bringing this person? “Wrote Mr. Bouchez on the X network, also accusing the French rapper of being” openly anti-police “.
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