THE POLEMIQUE SWOLLEN ABOUT

THE MEDINE RAPPER

The rapper Medina is once again at the heart of a controversy. The French rapper, born in Le Havre in 1985 and aged 35, is scheduled to perform at the Bataclan on 19th and 20th October, sold out. However this Parisian room was bereaved by the terrorist attack of November 13, 2015 causing 90 dead and a hundred wounded. Right-wing and far-right politicians, joined by several members of the presidential majority, such as MP Aurore Bergé, have stepped up to cancel the show.

Marine Le Pen sees an "incitement to Islamist fundamentalism" while Laurent Wauquiez denounces a " sacrilege for the victims, a disgrace for France", hatched by an " individual (...) posing as a 'islamo-caillera' ". The senator of Vendée Bruno Retailleau calls Gérard Collomb. He asks the Minister of the Interior to use "against this rapper the same weapons as those used against Dieudonné," the comedian repeatedly condemned for defamation, insult and incitement to hatred and racial discrimination . On the Twitter social network on Sunday, the #Bataclan and # Medina hashtags have been used extensively.

The 35-year-old Le Havre singer is accused by critics of hate speech and apology for Islamism. In fact, in 2015 Medina had released an album titled Minesweeper, with a song, Do not Laïk, in which he said, "C rucifions laïcards as in Golgotha. Polygamous is much better than friend Strauss-Kahn" or " I put fatwas on the heads of the idiots.

These words are taken from his album Jihad "" I'm a Djellaba at the day of the skirt "," I'm sufficient for Allah, I do not need to be layman "," Marianne is a tattooed femen "Fuck God" on the udders "," If I apply the Sharia thieves will be able to do more of handrail "» , also question

The rapper had to crack a forum on the website of the Obs to condemn the killing and defend himself by the same. "As an artist, I denounce all forms of violence, terrorism and other immoral apologies. I chose the path of non-violence as the majority of my fellow citizens through music to express my disagreements with my society.

" Do I need to point out to me, young rapper from Le Havre, to these academicians, philosophers, essayists that my speech is the epitome of the fight of Charlie Hebdo? (for freedom of expression, ed), " added the singer.

The association of victims of the attacks of November 13 Life for Paris reacted on Twitter, recalling that the Bataclan was "completely free of its programming, under the control of the police headquarters of Paris" and that it would let "nobody exploit the memory of the victims of the attacks for political purposes, as is the case in this case " .

For the moment, Medina has not communicated on the controversy.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld