In the grip of a controversy after a tweet accused of being anti-Semitic, the Le Havre rapper, Médine, admitted on Thursday that he had “overreacted” to what he considered to be “an insult” from the writer Rachel Khan, granddaughter of Holocaust victims. At the summer days of Europe Ecology-the Greens, Medina took the opportunity to denounce the “despicable attacks” of which he had been the victim for several weeks.
Welcomed by a standing ovation, the artist immediately returned to the affair triggered by his message on X (ex-Twitter) where he described the essayist Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of deportees, as “resKHANpée “.
“I overreacted and I had this awkwardness to use this word (survivor, editor’s note) whose historical emotional charge I did not measure”, he continued, adding that he was gone. “apologized immediately”. But still without acknowledging the anti-Semitic nature of his response, contrary to what many leading environmentalists have asked for in recent days. The artist, on the other hand, denounced the “filthy attacks” which have since targeted him, considering himself the victim of “trials of intent” and “by association”. It’s been “three weeks since I’ve been through hell with my family (…), not everyone is ready to take this”, he lamented.
“It’s not about me deconstructing myself on what I may have said,” Medine said, drawing parallels with “what social movements (and) suburban youth are going through, because they’re criminalized “, attracting the regular applause of a room won over to his cause.
“It’s obvious, you’re welcome here”, could only see his host, the general secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier.
