The controversy over the invitation of rapper Médine to the summer universities of ecologists and La France insoumise continued to swell on Thursday. The RN calls it a “shipwreck” of the left and secularists while particularly targeting the Greens.
“The left is a shipwreck today, that is to say that they no longer have any benchmarks, they no longer have regular voters, so they are ready to solicit residual electorates” , declared the deputy Rassemblement national (RN) of Moselle Laurent Jacobelli on the set of LCI. “Islamism for them is a way out,” he added. While environmentalists and the Insoumis claim to share certain fights with the singer, in particular against the far right and police violence, the deputy of the Lepenist party quoted the song Sister Act where Médine according to him “showed all his hatred of feminists whom he called bourgeoises hysterical”. Target of elected officials and activists of the National Rally with whom he scraps on social networks, Medina is regularly accused by the latter of being an “Islamist”.
But the artist is also accused of homophobia and anti-Semitism in the light of certain interviews, songs, or past positions: photos of the rapper performing the anti-Semitic gesture of the quenelle, or one of his texts where he sings “Let us crucify the secularists as in Golgotha”. “Let’s translate them: stay in your quarters, let us talk to each other, about you without us”, posted Médine on the social network X (ex-Twitter), in a message which seems addressed to all those who denounce his invitation to Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) and La France insoumise (LFI). A way of inviting journalists and politicians to take an interest in the neighborhoods, of which Médine is one of the representatives, by dialoguing with the people concerned rather than excluding them.
“On the right, they are afraid of my speeches, on the left, they could use it,” he posted again on X, quoting the words of one of his songs. In the anti-capitalist magazine Ballast dated July 15, the artist opposes discrimination, calling for “social justice”, the fight against “the extreme right” and the end of “mechanisms of oppression which strike at both the LGBT populations, the racialized, the feminists”. Médine will go to the Drôme on August 26 to participate in AmFis, the summer university of La France insoumise, just after its passage on August 24 in Le Havre at the summer days of ecologists and before the Fête de l’Huma in september.
Particularly criticized for this invitation, the head of Europe Ecologie-Les-Verts Marine Tondelier described as “caricatures” the remarks of the feminist and pro-secularism essayist Caroline Fourest who said she saw “the fundamentalists infiltrate the Greens with ease and delights”.
