France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez is studying legal means to ban the concert of US rapper Kanye West, scheduled for June 11 at the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille (south), because of his anti-Semitic statements, according to French press reports.
Nunez is exploring all possibilities to prevent the only date the pope has scheduled in France during his tour, according to Libération newspaper.
Kanye West, whose concerts scheduled in July in the UK have recently been banned, is not welcome by the Marseille authorities.
Its mayor, Benoît Payan, had expressed in early March his refusal to allow the rapper to make the Mediterranean city “a showcase for those who promote hatred and uninhibited Nazism”.
On April 7, the British government confirmed the ban on the musician’s entry, citing his repeated anti-Semitic statements in recent years, and the organizers of the Wireless Festival, where he was to headline, announced the cancellation of the event scheduled for July 10-12 in London.
The 48-year-old American rapper has repeatedly proclaimed himself a Hitler sympathizer. Last year he even released a song in apology to the dictator, although in January he apologized and attributed his behavior to a bipolar episode.
West has just begun his Ye Live Concert Tour, reported Agencia EFE, which will take him to stadiums around the world until August, including Spain, where he is expected to perform in Madrid at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano stadium on July 30.
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