2023-08-21 22:21:15
The environmental mayors of Bordeaux and Strasbourg, Pierre Hurmic and Jeanne Barseghian, confirmed on Monday that they will not participate in the EELV summer days this week in Le Havre, due to the arrival of the controversial rapper Médine.
The return of the Greens will take place without the mayors of Bordeaux and Strasbourg, Pierre Hurmic and Jeanne Barseghian, who have announced that they will not participate in the summer days planned in Le Havre due to the arrival of the rapper Médine.
Jeanne Barseghian considers that “Medina has a too ambiguous position on anti-Semitism,” a spokeswoman for the mayor of Strasbourg told AFP. An allusion to the recent tweet of the controversial artist, who revived the recurring accusations once morest him by qualifying the essayist Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of deportees, of “resKHANpée” in a message on X (ex-Twitter) . The rapper had apologized for this “unsuitable formula, which must have offended people”.
The Alsatian councilor “had pleaded for the cancellation of the participation” of the rapper in the summer days of the environmentalist party, “but this is not the option that was chosen”, added this same source.
On the Gironde side, Pierre Hurmic split a brief press release to announce that he “will stay
For the party leadership, these two absences are “not at all an act of internal claim or opposition”, told AFP the organizer of the summer days, Léa Balage El Mariky. “Everyone has the right to express a different sensitivity,” tempers a close friend of Secretary General Marine Tondelier.
Unease among the Greens
The mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, has also confirmed his presence in Le Havre despite the quarrel over Medina: “I will go listen to him and I will form my own opinion, far from comments and chatter”, a- he explained.
Several leading environmentalists, however, expressed their discomfort last week, from Julien Bayou to Sandrine Rousseau, including Karima Delli and Noël Mamère. Despite these dissensions, Marine Tondelier maintained her debate with the artist Thursday at the end of the day, while warning that she would be “extremely attentive to what Medina will say” on this occasion and “the days that will follow”.
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