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AMSTERDAM, May 29 — US rapper Kanye West, who has been barred from performing successful respective countries owed to past antisemitic comments, is group to clasp concerts successful nan Netherlands adjacent month, aft nan country’s migration curate said location were nary ineligible grounds to contradict him entry.
Dutch lawmakers had urged nan authorities to barroom West, who is now known arsenic Ye, citing his past remarks and expressions of admiration for Nazism and Adolf Hitler.
“Solid grounds are needed to barroom group from entering (the Netherlands). We person not recovered those successful nan analyses that were conducted,” Bart van den Brink said connected Friday.
“His past statements are not, astatine this moment, a logic to contradict him entry.”
The 48-year-old rapper will execute astatine performance venue GelreDome successful nan metropolis of Arnhem, astir 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Amsterdam, connected June 6 and 8.
They would beryllium Ye’s first European performances since 2014, GelreDome said connected its website.
Arnhem authorities said no permits to protestation nan concerts had truthful acold been requested.
Ye has faced a growing world backlash, including for his merchandise of “Heil Hitler,” a opus promoting Nazism.
In April, Britain denied Ye introduction connected nan grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the nationalist good, forcing nan cancellation of his planned Wireless Festival quality successful London.
Later that month, he also postponed a Marseille show aft reports that nan French government had sought to artifact it, and a performance successful Poland was besides subsequently canceled.
In January, Ye took retired a full-page advertisement successful US newspaper nan Wall Street Journal, renouncing his past admiration for Hitler and apologizing for his behavior, which he attributed to an undiagnosed encephalon wounded and untreated bipolar disorder.
