Le Figaro Bordeaux
“
I don't appreciate having been cheated, but I don't know if I would have refused his arrival.
Two days after the Millésime K concert in Fargues Saint-Hilaire (Gironde), on Saturday, the councilor Bertrand Gautier, considers that he was "
gotten
".
MK Music, the production house of the controversial rapper for his ideas affiliated with the extreme right, had rented the party hall on the grounds of "
a dance evening, emphasizing the need for a room adapted to people with reduced mobility.
".
Alerted to the presence of the Lyonnais rapper who supported Éric Zemmour during the last presidential election, the elected Girondin, positioning himself "
in the center right
" of the political spectrum, went there.
“
When I entered the room with the Patriote logo and filled with tricolor flags with an artist in a suit on the stage, I first thought of the movement of Florian Philippot.
He had planned a security service, there were no shouting or clashes.
I had no interest in making a scene
, ”describes Bertrand Gautier who therefore let the show unfold.
While he saw about fifty people, he estimates the gauge of the public – which continued to flow – between 80 and 100 spectators.
Refusing to “
play the censors
”, the one who will not run for a 3rd term insists: “
It is not because we rent a room that we are obliged to adhere to his ideas.
The only thing I care about is safety.
There, we had no choice.
But on the merits, we are at the limit of the offense of opinion.
»
Controversy
A position far from being unanimous.
On the eve of its performance in Gironde, Friday, the EELV group of the town hall of Bordeaux was indignant on Twitter at the presence of an " identity
" rapper
with "
racist, misogynistic, lgbtphobic and deeply hateful
" lyrics.
In concert, Pierre Hurmic declared that "
the ideas of the extreme right are not welcome in Bordeaux, land of tolerance and moderation
."
Moreover, the municipality confirms to
Figaro
this Monday "
that no rental request identified as being able to come from the rapper has not been received on the equipment of the City
".
The village hall of Fargues Saint-Hilaire was the first choice of the artist, confirms his lawyer.
These oppositions, Millésime K encounters them in most of the cities registered on its tour.
In March, he thus canceled a concert near Lyon after several demonstrations, and especially after having received, according to Maître Debrosse, "
threats to burn down the hall
" where he was to perform.
Near Dijon on April 16, he gave a concert in the parking lot of Chenôve after a municipal decree had prohibited him the day before from accessing the places he had rented to receive his fans.
Millésime K calls himself a patriot (that's the name of his tour) and all his lyrics castigating “
well-meaning
”, such as
Censuré
, claim it.
“
When I hear Mélenchon speak, I get depressed
”, “
it's not to burn cars that we make matches
”, “
What they did to the country makes me salivate more.
I'm going to the front: call me Joan of Arc
”, he declares in his titles.
His
punchlines
invoke Clovis, Charlemagne, General de Gaulle and Jean Moulin.
They advocate the return to military service, the expulsion of foreign S files, a decent remuneration for the peasants and France of yellow vests or even the opposition to wokism, inclusive writing and gender theory.
Texts, such as
Stop violence against women
where he also proclaims a “
respect
” for the opposite sex, however far from being salient in his title
50 Shades of Grey
.
Contacted about his room rental process, he replied to Le
Figaro
through the voice of his lawyer, Nicolas Debrosse.
“
They are rented on behalf of his production company.
Why should he specify who he is?
When your newspaper reserves a table for 4 covers, do you tell the restaurateur who you are and with whom you are going to have lunch
?
If the owner of the room wants to know who the artist is, he has only to ask the question
”, retorts his advice.
Before admitting that “
if there are many people who dance at his concerts, it is not a dance evening in the sense of a ball
”.
Millésime K condemns Nazism
Qualified as “
facho
” by its opponents, Millésime K denies it.
In a video posted on Instagram this Sunday, he returns to an incident during his concert on Saturday.
While asking his fans to perform "
a military salute
" on the song
Uniforme
, which pays tribute to soldiers who died on the field of honor, a person in the room performing a Nazi salute was seen and photographed by our colleagues from
Médiapart
.
A gesture, symbol of a "
nauseating
" ideology, firmly condemned by the rapper.
"
Our grandparents and our great-grandparents gave their lives to fight against this scourge of Nazism and to save the French people.
And there you dare to betray your ancestors with an infamous gesture that is unforgivable?
You are absolutely not welcome
, “said the man who has 136,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel.
Stating that he had not spotted this individual because of the spotlights, he assures that if necessary his security service would have "taken him
out
".
To date, Millésime K has not been the subject of any criminal conviction or known complaint by his lawyer for incitement to hatred, racism or homophobia.
"
I understand that his words may shock, that one can adhere to his ideas or fight them, but I have not seen anything criminally reprehensible in what he says",
supports Maître Debrosse, who deplores "
that we tries to curb, by force or by twisting the law – which should on the contrary allow it – freedom of expression
[de son client, Millésime K, NDLR].”
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/KMEYMJKESBAZBE4MRBAM4TGHIQ.jpg)
