Medina continues its tour… of summer universities. While the native of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) will be present at the meeting of environmentalists, planned in the Norman port city the last weekend of August, the controversial rapper is also expected at the summer “AmFis” of La France Insoumise, organized at the same time in Drôme. Participation planned and confirmed internally “for a long time”, we explain within the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The announcement of his coming to the Greens had already provoked an outcry last week within the political class, in particular because of certain lyrics of his songs. A few years ago, the sulphurous artist was particularly singled out for his sentences on secularism, such as “Let’s crucify the secularists in Golgotha”, or on integration: “Assimilate what is it? It’s giving up your ethnic, social and religious affiliation (…), that you’re no longer black, that you no longer have frizzy hair, that you’re a light Muslim (…) which looks a bit silly “.
Among the Insoumis – as among the Greens -, we prefer to recall the recent positions taken by Medina against “police violence”, in particular since the death of young Nahel, killed on the sidelines of a road check at the end of June after a refusal to comply. “He’s a popular rapper. It resonates with a lot of people. It is important to discuss with this kind of artist”, we explain within LFI.
At the summer “AmFis”, he will discuss with Mathilde Panot, the president of the Insoumis group in the National Assembly. The latter had notably quoted the words of her hit “Médine France”, during an intervention at the rostrum of the National Assembly: “You do not postpone the age of retirement, you advance the age of death” , she had launched for Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, before relaying this wink on the social network “X” (ex-Twitter).
The tour on the left of Medina will not stop at the end of August, since the artist will also be present at the end of September at the “Festival of Humanity”, with the communists. This time to sing, not to debate.
