Censorship assumed. The mayor (PS) of Lille, Martine Aubry, asked the prefect to ban a concert by the controversial rapper Millésime K. planned in the city on Saturday evening, a few days after the cancellation of a concert near Grenoble, learned the AFP, Wednesday, at the town hall. Martine Aubry arrested the prefecture on Tuesday, said the town hall.
Songs close to far-right positions
The group of elected environmentalists also split a press release to denounce the arrival of the rapper whose texts are deemed “openly racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic. “The elected ecologists thus alerted the owners of concert halls in the Lille metropolis to “beware of the possible holding of this concert in their place of reception”.
The rapper, with more than 700,000 subscribers on TikTok, is known for his songs close to far-right positions. He notably released three albums called Freedom, Equality And Fraternity. In his clips released freely on YouTube, the singer often complains of being censored. On March 10, he was to start a tour near Grenoble called “Patriote”, with around twenty dates throughout France until June, but his concert was canceled following the mobilization of several unions and anti-fascist organizations.
“Aggressions and far-right terrorism are on the rise everywhere and the words of Millésime K. clearly encourage it, it is time to stop them”, they denounced. One of the managers of the Isérois center dedicated to well-being where the concert was to be held had explained to AFP that she had been deceived by the “dishonest” approach of the rapper, who would have presented himself as being a company of “events of ‘business “. He had therefore broken the contract.
Same method as Dieudonné
Obviously, the singer has adopted the same method as Dieudonné. The concert dates are announced on its website, the city is indicated but without specifying the exact place. The location of the concert is only communicated at the last moment to ticket holders. For example, the concert scheduled for March 17 in Marseille took place a few kilometers further, in Aubagne, in a dance school.
The headmistress of the school says she was put on the fait accompli. “We feel abused, victims. This concert goes against what we stand for, what we wear,” she says to Provence. Same scenario, the next day, March 18, in Montpellier. On the France 3 websitethe manager of the place also complained of having been deceived about the content of the concert.
Others are scheduled throughout France. For the moment, no city has taken an advance directive to prohibit its holding. And the Nord prefecture has not yet moved on Martine Aubry’s request for a ban.