Justice suspends the decree prohibiting the rapper Freeze Corleone from performing in Rennes

The rapper Freeze Corleone obtained the suspension of the municipal decree which prohibited him from performing on March 18 in Rennes, but the City will file an appeal before the Council of State, the municipality said on Saturday.

The artist appealed to the Administrative Court of Rennes to challenge the prohibition order issued on February 28 by the City, which refers to “proven risk of disturbing public order“due in particular to lyrics”considered anti-Semitic“. “The rendering of the court is this, that the decree of February 28 is suspended“Said the City of Rennes to AFP on Saturday, confirming information from West France. The court issued its decision after a hearing held on Friday, according to the newspaper. “The City will appeal to the Council of State“, announced the municipality. The rapper is scheduled on March 18 for the “Booming fest Rennes” rap festival.

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In her decree of February 28, the PS mayor of Rennes Nathalie Appéré recalled that the rapper “has been the subject, at the request of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), of an investigation by the Ministry of the Interior, for words deemed anti-Semitic, glorifying Nazism and terrorism“.

“Such remarks are likely to greatly exacerbate the already strong tensions between various extreme political groups present in Rennes”, had underlined the chosen one. Noting that “the programming of this concert is already generating many debates and reactions within the local population”the mayor of Rennes considers “that a proven risk of disturbing public order is to be feared in this period”.

A rising figure in French rap, Freeze Corleone was let go by his label after anti-Semitic clips in September 2020. On Youtube, his clips total several million views.