It all started a month ago.
The far-right Tarn group Patria Albigès demands the cancellation of the concert, scheduled for April 1 at the Athanor, the performance hall of Albi, Medina, a rapper he considers a "preacher of hate
"
.
Two elected officials from Tarn, Bernard Carayon, LR mayor of Lavaur as well as Frédéric Cabrolier, RN deputy from Tarn, will then support the collective.
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They challenge the prefect of Tarn, supporting the request of Patria Albigès
"for reasons of public order in a particularly turbulent time".
The concert is maintained despite everything, and the rapper responds by posting a video on his Instagram account where while whistling he aims at the faces of the two elected officials with darts.
This then provokes the fury of the two concerned who assured that they had filed a complaint, as assured by Frédéric Cabrolier on Twitter.
For his part, the prefect also reacted on the social network, expressing his indignation:
“I became aware of a video by the rapper Médine in which the photographs of elected officials from Tarn serve as targets for darts.
This staging is unacceptable in our Republic.”
The next Medina concert scheduled for Agen this Saturday April 8 is also threatened with cancellation after the RN deputy for Gironde, Edwige Diaz, sent a letter to the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak.
She claims in this one the withdrawal of the label "
SMAC
" (Scènes de Musique Actuelle) from the ADEM (Association for the Development of Musical Expression), the association which manages the performance hall where the performance is supposed to take place. artist this weekend.
A controversy that does not date from yesterday
Since 2015 already, the rapper Médine maintains complicated relations with part of the French political landscape.
A few days before the
Charlie Hebdo
attack , the rapper had released an album called "
Jihad, the greatest fight is against oneself
" including
Don't Laïk
, a song with lyrics deemed shocking such as "
Crucifions les laïcards comme à Golgotha
” or even “
I saw the tree of their secularism before we put it in the ground, Marianne is a femen tattooed “Fuck God” on her breasts.
»
The rapper was then refused access to the Bataclan, in 2018, after right-wing and far-right elected officials called for the cancellation of his concerts in this room damaged by the attacks of November 13, 2015.