The concert of controversial rapper Freeze Corleone, which was to to be held this Friday evening (8 p.m.) at Zenith of Nantes, will indeed be canceled. This was confirmed this Friday afternoon by the Nantes administrative court, seized by the artist for summary proceedings. This referral to the court followed the decision of the prefect of Loire-Atlantique to ban the show due to “anti-Semitic and hateful references towards the Jewish community” and the risk of “disturbing public order” in the context of the conflict. Israeli-Palestinian.
A point of view which was therefore validated by the Nantes administrative justice system this Friday. “Holding the disputed concert would give rise to a proven risk of committing an offense likely to undermine respect for human dignity and characterize a disturbance of public order in a context fraught with tension and increased security,” considers the summary judge.
“Freedom of expression” was not accepted
This reading may however be surprising to the extent that, in the same situation, the administrative courts of Paris and Rennes had recently chosen to authorize the Freeze Corleone concert on the grounds of “freedom of expression”.
Very popular on social networks, Freeze Corleone is a 31-year-old rapper from the Ile-de-France region. Since 2020, he has regularly been singled out for some of his texts evoking Hitler, Nazi Germany or the Shoah.