Le Figaro Nantes
His tour is cut short.
Banned from performing in concert in Lille and then in Lyon, French rapper Freeze Corleone is subject to a new ban from going on stage.
The prefect of Loire-Atlantique, Fabrice Rigoulet-Roze, issued an order on Monday banning the concert scheduled for February 28 in Saint-Herblain, in the Nantes metropolitan area.
The suspension had been expected since the announcement on February 13 of the initiation of proceedings to ban the demonstration.
The prefecture justified its order by the risk of disturbances to public order and
“incitement to acts of an anti-Semitic nature”.
A particularly strong risk, according to state services, due to the
“geopolitical context still extremely tense following the
terrorist attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023 in Israel
”,
and by the artistic content of Freeze Corleone’s songs ,
“known for
its anti-Semitic and hateful references against the Jewish community
”.
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Investigation for “apology of terrorism”
In mid-February, Freeze Corleone's lawyer, Maître Sanjay Mirabeau, told Le
Figaro
that he hoped that the prefecture would not wait until the last moment before issuing its ban order.
“We hope that it will be issued within a reasonable time before the concert, so that we can challenge it before the administrative court and then the Council of State,”
he declared at the time.
Aged 31, Freeze Corleone, whose real name is Issa Lorenzo Diakhaté, has been the target of a preliminary investigation opened by the Nice public prosecutor's office since February 10 for "apology of terrorism."
Justice is particularly interested in the song
Haaland
, released Thursday February 8, where the artist - in a duet with rapper Luciano - seems to refer to the attack of July 14, 2016 in Nice.
The truck attack left 86 dead and several hundred injured on the Promenade des Anglais.