Le Figaro Lyon
After Nantes and Lille, it is the turn of the Rhône prefecture to ban the concert of rapper Freeze Corleone, real name Issa Lorenzo Diakhaté, scheduled for this Saturday, February 17 at the Halle Tony-Garnier.
State services estimated in a decree published Tuesday and consulted by
Le Figaro
, that
“many of the controversial artist's titles contain conspiratorial and openly anti-Semitic comments, marked with admiration for the person of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich
.
The prefecture cites for example the title
“Bâton Rouge”
and its words
“I arrive determined like Adolf in the 30s”
or even
“I prefer to be accused of anti-Semitism than of rape like Gérald Darmanin”
, from the title Shavkat.
Considering that this concert takes place
“in a particularly tense geopolitical context following the large-scale terrorist attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023”
and that these tensions have led
“to more than 1,500 anti-Semitic acts in France”
since that date, there are
“serious risks of disturbing public order”,
wrote the prefecture in its decree.
The prefectures of Loire-Atlantique, Gironde and Paris had made similar decisions at the end of 2023.
Opening of an investigation for “apology of terrorism” in Nice
Aged 31, Freeze Corleone is the subject of a preliminary investigation opened on February 10 by the Nice public prosecutor's office for “apology of terrorism”.
Justice targets a passage from the song Haaland, performed in a duet with the rapper Luciano in which Freeze Corleone seems to refer to the attack of July 14, 2016 on the Promenade des Anglais which left 86 dead and many injured.
“I arrive in rap like a truck that bombs hard on the…”
, we can hear in this title.
For its part, the Freeze Corleone team denounced
“arbitrary and insulting interpretations”
and assured that it wanted to file a defamation complaint against Christian Estrosi and Éric Ciotti who had denounced the comments made in this title.