For the time being, he had stayed well away from the controversy. While the invitation of the rapper Médine to the summer universities of EELV on August 24 in Le Havre and the "Amfis" of La France Insoumise on August 26 has been making headlines for a few weeks, and causes tremors on the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended Friday night this controversial character. In a message posted on X, the tutelary figure of La France Insoumise chants it, like a missive addressed to his comrades on the left: "Medina is not racist". "Why would you want to make him confess positions that are not his own after inviting him?" he pretends to wonder.
At the heart of the case? A message from Medina, published last week, and deemed anti-Semitic towards the essayist Rachel Kahn, Jew and granddaughter of deportees, calling her a "resKHANpée". If the rapper had then apologized, recognizing a "formula not adapted", his explanation of text was not enough to convince the entire political class. A good part of whom was indignant at the maintenance of Medina in these very political back-to-school meetings. Some members of the executive have even expressed their indignation. In his message, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also ironically comments on "the Macronist admirers of Barrès, Maurras and Pétain (who) are lucky to have opponents so submissive to what will be said about hypocrites." An arrow that is not trivial. If the left refractory to this invitation tried until then to put on a good face, the varnish began to crack this Friday.
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In a post, EELV MEP Karima Delli, who says she is "viscerally attached to respect for people, freedom, equality, solidarity and secularism", does not wish to "support even less support" such an initiative. And to add, with the appropriate keyword: "Yes, #MedineFallaitPasLInviter". "When we write texts we measure the weight and scope of words," then outbid EELV MP Francesca Pasquini. When you are a politician or an elected official, you have to condemn forcefully, without half measures. There are no excuses," she scoffed.
His highly publicized colleague Sandrine Rousseau also castigated a "tweet (which) is anti-Semitic." "There is no shadow of a doubt," added the Parisian elected to AFP, considering that Medina "should have recognized it". If the boss of the party Marine Tondelier warned, Friday morning on France Inter, that she will be "extremely attentive to what Medina will say on August 24 and what he will say every day that will follow", she still evoked an "insidious anti-Semitism" among some people including Medina. According to the national secretary of EELV, the latter "do not become aware of the scope of their remarks." It can be because of a lack of culture on the subject, a lack of training, stupidity, too, ignorance.
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