About fifty LREM deputies are calling for sanctions on Thursday after the broadcast of the clip of a rapper deemed anti-Semitic and defending Nazism, while Gérald Darmanin asks major social networks not to disseminate this
“refuse”
.
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“(We) are deeply shocked by the absolutely loathsome anti-Semitic and denial of Freeze Corleone's comments in a clip posted on social media. The latter openly defends Nazism and praises the terrorist Mollah Omar ”
, write the deputies including the deputy of Yvelines, Aurore Bergé, the former minister of ecological transition, François de Rugy, or the president of the Law Commission, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
These elected officials ask the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti
"to act so that the author of this abject clip is punished"
.
"Our Republic cannot accept that pseudo-artistic expression can serve as a pretext for calls for hatred or for the defense of terrorism"
, commented the deputies.
“Let’s not let anything go,”
they add.
In a tweet, the Minister of the Interior was also indignant at the comments contained in the video deemed
"unspeakable"
.
“At my request, the Ministry of the Interior is studying as quickly as possible legal remedies to prosecute their author. I am already calling on Facebook and Twitter not to disseminate this refuse, ”
wrote Gérald Darmanin.
The League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) believes that
"impunity must end"
and calls on all players including the major online music distribution platforms to
"take their responsibilities"
.
The Interministerial Delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred (Dilcrah) Frédéric Potier indicated that he had made a report to the Paris prosecutor after having identified nine passages that would constitute an incitement to racial hatred, according to a referral consulted by AFP and made under Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The Interior Ministry also told AFP that a report under the same article would be made in the afternoon.
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In extracts posted on social networks, the rapper declares among other things:
"I arrive determined like Adolf in the 1930s"
,
"every day RAF
(nothing to give a fuck, editor's note)
of the Shoah"
or even
"like Swiss bankers, everything for the family so that my children live like Jewish pensioners ”
.
On the right, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes (LR) Éric Ciotti denounces a
"real preacher of hate"
and also calls on digital platforms to delete him and to ban his songs from broadcasting.