The hearing is scheduled for Friday morning at 11:15 a.m. Via his lawyer, Maître Adrien Chartron, the rapper Freeze Corleone filed an interim order before the administrative court of Rennes after the banning of his concert scheduled for March 18 in the hall Le Liberté as part of the Boomin Fest festival.
In a municipal decree dated February 28, the mayor of Rennes banned the rapper from Les Lilas from performing on the grounds of a “proven risk of disturbing public order. Figure of the “drill” in France, Freeze Corleone is accused by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) of words deemed “anti-Semitic” and advocating Nazism and terrorism.
In some songs, the rapper, released by his Universal label in 2020, notably declares: “I arrive determined like Adolf in the 1930s”, “Every day RAF (nothing to fuck) of the Shoah” or “Rise an empire like young Adolf. “Scandalous remarks for the Licra which had requested in September 2020 the opening of an investigation to the Ministry of the Interior.
The organizers have maintained the program
Based on her alerts, Nathalie Appéré, socialist mayor of Rennes, believes that Freeze Corleone’s remarks “constitute real provocations and incitement to hatred or even violence” and “are likely to very greatly exacerbate the already strong tensions between different extreme political groups present in Rennes. »
The city had initially asked its public company Citedia, which operates Le Liberté, to request the deprogramming of the rapper from Krumpp, the production company which is piloting the event. “As the organizer has not modified its programming, after discussion with the prefectural authority, the City has issued a prohibition order. »