The Council of State authorizes the rapper Freeze Corleone to perform in Rennes, against the advice of the town hall

The municipality of Rennes wanted to ban the rapper from performing in the city on Saturday evening. The Council of State has decided otherwise and Freeze Corleone will be able to play within the framework of a rap festival.

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Rapper Freeze Corleone in the music video for the track "Jeremy Lin".  (YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT)

Rapper Freeze Corleone will finally be able to perform in Rennes on Saturday March 18 as part of the rap festival Boomin Fest Reindeer : the Council of State indeed rejected Friday evening the appeal of the city which wanted to prohibit the concert singer. The Board felt that the show does not feature “proven risks” of “pviolate human dignity“nor to cause trouble.

On February 28, the PS mayor of Rennes Nathalie Appéré issued a municipal decree prohibiting the singer’s show, highlighting in particular a risk of “public disorder“. But Freeze Corleone – Issa Diakhaté for civil status – had seized the administrative court of Rennes which had suspended the municipal decree. The town hall had immediately announced that it was filing an appeal with the Council of State.

An investigation opened in 2020 for “words deemed anti-Semitic”

To justify its ban, the city of Rennes cited in particular the opening of an investigation in 2020 concerning Freeze Corleone for “words deemed anti-Semitic, advocating Nazism and terrorism“. But “this investigation led to a dismissal a year later on the grounds that the facts (…) were time-barred“, underlines the Council of State.

Besides, “if it appears from the investigation that the rapper Freeze Corléone wrote and sang texts, the content of which is not disputed, containing passages making positive reference to Nazism and clearly of an anti-Semitic nature“, the artist assures “that these texts are no longer those that make up his concerts today“and that he will not interpret them in Rennes, adds the order.

A rising figure in French rap, Freeze Corleone, whose clips on YouTube total several million views, was released in September 2020 by his label, Universal Music, which denounced “unacceptable racist remarks“.

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