After EELV, La France insoumise also invites the rapper Médine to its summer university

Denounced on the right, Medina is more courted on the left. The rapper, who must already participate in the opening of the EELV summer school in Le Havre on August 24, was invited to the gathering of La France insoumise, two days later in Valence. The 40-year-old artist will discuss there at the end of the afternoon with the leader of the rebellious in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, indicates the deputy LFI Bastien Lachaud, confirming information from the Figaro.

Committed against the far right, police violence and racism, Médine will be a headliner during these two political events for the return to the left, before going a month later to the annual high mass of the Party communist, the Fête de l’Huma, this time only to sing. At the end of July, the announcement of the arrival of Medina at the summer raout of EELV had triggered a flood of criticism from the far right and part of the right.

“We have a lot of common fights”

“In his texts, he sometimes says green things, others not green,” said Léa Balage El-Mariky. “But he spoke a lot after Nahel’s death, about racism in the police, we have that in common, even if we really don’t do it in the same way,” added the member of the environmental executive. . “We have a lot of common fights”, confided for her part Marine Tondelier. The fight against the extreme right is one of [ceux] that we have in common with the ecologists”, as well as “anti-racism”, for its part assured Médine.

Target of elected officials and activists of the National Rally with whom he regularly clashes on social networks, Medina is accused by the latter of being an “Islamist”. But the rapper is also accused of homophobia and anti-Semitism in the light of certain interviews, songs, or past positions.

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