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French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez is studying ways successful which to prohibition a scheduled Kanye West performance successful nan Southern larboard metropolis of Marseille successful June successful consequence to nan artist’s past antisemitic outbursts and pro-Nazi declarations.
Daily newspaper Libération first reported nan moves to forestall nan artist, now calling himself Ye, from performing successful France connected Tuesday morning, and different French outlets person since confirmed nan report.
AFP said it had been told by sources adjacent to nan curate that he was looking astatine “all possibilities’ to extremity nan concert.
The move comes conscionable 1 week after nan UK authorities banned West from entering nan state owed to his antisemitic dislike speech, efficaciously cancelling plans for him to header London’s Wireless Festival successful July.
The show was past cancelled wrong hours of nan determination being made public.
West is presently owed to execute connected June 11 astatine nan Vélodrome stadium successful Marseille.
The politician of Marseille, Benoît Payan, had already declared his guidance to West’s capacity connected societal media successful precocious March.
“I garbage to fto Marseille beryllium a showcase for those who beforehand hatred and unashamed Nazism. Kanye West is not invited astatine nan Vélodrome, our temple of surviving together and of each that is Marseillais,” he wrote connected X.
Elsewhere successful Europe, West is besides owed to execute successful nan Netherlands connected June 6 and 8 astatine nan GelreDome Stadium successful Arnhem, arsenic good arsenic successful Madrid astatine nan extremity of July.
These performances person been maintained for now.
