French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez is studying ways in which to ban a scheduled Kanye West concert in the Southern port city of Marseille in June in response to the artist’s past antisemitic outbursts and pro-Nazi declarations.
Daily newspaper Libération first reported the moves to prevent the artist, now calling himself Ye, from performing in France on Tuesday morning, and other French outlets have since confirmed the report.
AFP said it had been told by sources close to the minister that he was looking at “all possibilities’ to stop the concert.
The move comes just one week after the UK government banned West from entering the country due to his antisemitic hate speech, effectively cancelling plans for him to headline London’s Wireless Festival in July.
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The festival was then cancelled within hours of the decision being made
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