« This is one too many times. “ Rapper Medina announced in an interview with Mediapart published this Tuesday, February 23 to have lodged a complaint for defamation against the deputy LREM Aurore Bergé. “She sticks to me an ideology that is not mine”, he denounces.
Invited on LCI on February 18, the deputy had qualified the artist “Islamist rapper” who “Said that secularists had to be killed”, also accusing him of having uttered a “Call for murder”.
“She sticks to me an ideology which is, of course, not mine”, Madinah protests, who also demands a public apology. Returning to his song “Don’t Laïk”, he affirms that Aurore Bergé “Wrong quote”. “The precise quote is: ‘Let us crucify the laity as in Golgotha. “”, he explains, claiming that it was “Taken out of context”.
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“The song is a succession of absurdities, oxymorons, describes the rapper, who accuses the member of deliberately ignoring the stylistic dimension of the text. It fits a type of writing that exacerbates things. The goal is to exorcise secularism and restore it to its former glory. When we want to exorcise something, it is to dispossess it of its demons. “
“If we isolated the sentence of Sardou who says that he comes” the desire to break a bank / De [s]e crucify the cashier ”, that would make say something quite different to the song of the singer and his career”, he points out.
The rapper considers himself to be “a kind of scarecrow”
“I ask him to prove that I really made calls for murder, that I was in something ambiguous about this deadly ideology. Which is impossible ”, hammers the artist.
While France is plunged into a context of controversy over “Islamo-leftism” and the law against separatism, Medina believes that being “Muslim, with a beard and from an immigrant background” made him “A sort of scarecrow that certain politicians, lacking in buzz and needing visibility, regularly use to relaunch the debate on the Muslim presence in France”.
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With this complaint, the rapper “Hope that we will enter something serene where we will talk about the facts and where we will stop speculating or adding noise by inventing words that I have never made”.
“I want to show those who experience bullying or false accusations, such as those brought against me, that we can act and say ‘Stop it’s over'”, he adds.
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This is not the first time that the rapper has drawn the wrath of political figures: in 2018, the right and the far right accused him of adhering to Islamist fundamentalism by reproaching him for old songs like “Don ‘t Laïk ”or“ Jihad ”, and had forced him to cancel a concert planned at the Bataclan.
