The rapper Médine, whose invitation to the back-to-school meetings of the Greens and rebellious France sparked controversy, says that “anti-Semitism is poison” and pleads Wednesday in two interviews for errors and blunders in some of his takes. of positions.
“Anti-Semitism is a poison, I have been fighting it for a long time,” said the artist in an interview with Le Parisien, at the heart of a controversy for ten days because of a pun on X (ex-Twitter) qualifying the essayist Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of deportees, of “resKHANpée”.
“It’s a mistake, I admit it,” he adds, explaining that he “didn’t have his family’s history in mind” when he posted this “awkward tweet” in response to a message from Ms Khan calling it ‘garbage’.
A “clumsiness” also assumed in Paris Normandy, where the Le Havre rapper regrets that his initial apologies remained “inaudible”. “I am accused of anti-Semitism and that crushes me,” he laments.
Incidentally, Medina again justifies the “quenelle” made almost ten years ago with the polemicist Dieudonné. “I thought (it) was freedom of expression,” he says, saying he understood “too late” that it was an “anti-Semitic rallying sign”.
“We are looking for an old clumsiness to disqualify me, to discredit the left through me”, he believes, castigating “anti-racism in the living room” and a “ridiculous media frenzy”.
Despite the dissension that his arrival causes among environmentalists, he confirms his participation in the debate scheduled for Thursday at the end of the day with the boss of EELV Marine Tondelier. “I maintain my presence,” he said, believing he had “experience to bring in terms of anti-racism”.
08/23/2023 08:50:00 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
