He does not intend to give up this invitation. Médine, after a long silence on the controversy surrounding his invitation to the summer universities of Europe Écologie-Les Verts, spoke in several media, in particular with Le Parisien in an interview published on Wednesday August 23. “The media treatment is disproportionate, there is no possible excitement”, regrets the controversial rapper.
“Basically, I am invited to my city to talk about my texts […] and in the end, we talk about everything except the real problems, the climate emergency, the rise of the far right, its ideas,” he adds.
He admits, however, that his tweet deemed anti-Semitic towards the essayist Rachel Khan was “a mistake”. “It’s a clumsy tweet, because I didn’t have his family’s history in mind”, promises the Le Havre, and adds: “Anti-Semitism is a poison, I have been fighting it for a long time. His quenelle in 2014? “I regretted it, but too late and not forcefully enough. He defends himself: “At least I admit my mistakes, not everyone does.” And to try a metaphor: “I am taken for a bomber, whereas I am a deminer.” It’s a curse I carry. »
With his controversial release, several elected officials criticized his coming to the summer days of environmentalists. The mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, and of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, have canceled their attendance. The mayor of Le Havre, Édouard Philippe, invited to hold a republican introductory speech, canceled on Tuesday. He will instead receive several other elected officials who have requested it: Grégory Doucet (Mayor of Lyon), Éric Piolle (Mayor of Grenoble) and Karima Delli (MEP).
The Summer Environmental Days will run from Thursday August 24th to Saturday August 26th. The rapper must debate there with the leader of the party, Marine Tondelier, Thursday evening. Sandrine Rousseau also announced that she wanted to debate and make the rapper aware of the meaning of his comments on X (ex-Twitter).
