Three weeks later, Rachel Khan reacts. The essayist who was the target of a tweet considered anti-Semitic by the rapper Médine, invited to the ecologists’ summer universities at the beginning of August and then to that of La France insoumise, responds in an interview in the World.
“Medina is a repeat offender in hate speech. He apologizes and each time he comes back with something new: the quenelle, the homophobic and anti-Semitic attacks, secularism and now this attack on my name,” says the writer.
Before adding: “there are words that are crimes, it is not negotiable.”
Political frenzy after a tweet
Médine, who had been criticized by Rachel Khan at the beginning of August, responded sharply on X (former Twitter name): “ResKHANpée: person abandoned by the Hip Hop venue, wandering among social traitors and eating in the proper sense of the table of the extreme right”.
The rapper’s tweet had caused controversy. The writer was born to a Gambian Muslim father and a Franco-Polish Jewish mother. His grandparents were Holocaust survivors.
The rapper made special reference in his message to the tumultuous departure of the writer from La Place, the hip-hop cultural center of the city of Paris, as well as his proximity to Macronie.
Rachel Khan led an immigration task force during Emmanuel Macron’s 2022 presidential campaign. A few months earlier, the actress also had lunch with Marine Le Pen, according to information from the World.
Division among environmentalists
Several personalities from Europe-Ecology The Greens had canceled their visit to the summer universities, such as Jeanne Barseghian, mayor of Strasbourg or Pierre Hurnic, councilor of Bordeaux. There is no doubt that they will appear alongside the rapper for the movement’s political comeback. However, EELV maintained its participation in the event, as did La France insoumise.
Medina later apologized for X.
“Unambiguously. I attacked Rachel Khan’s professional career. The inappropriate formula, which certainly must have offended people and I apologize for it, was not directed at her family or the victims of the Shoah drama,” the rapper wrote. . , then explaining that he did not know that his mother was Jewish.
Rachel Khan welcomes reminder of ‘Republic values’
Rachel Khan, for her part, had kept a low profile, save for a very brief reply on I24, a few days before her appearance as a jury member at the Angouleme French film festival, so as “not to interfere”.
“I let the others speak for me. I’m glad to see the reactions that have gone through the political sphere to remember the values of the Republic, even within the Greens,” the writer now explains to the newspaper World, he became a member of EELV in the 2000s.
Before environmentalists, during a debate moderated by Marine Tondelier, patron of the movement, the rapper fully justified himself. “My invitation had already been a controversy even before this awkwardness was brought to me by the message. I overreacted to a message where (Rachel Khan) called me a waste to shoot. I was wrong,” Medina explained.
“I never wanted to point to his past, to his family. Immediately when I realized this mistake, I apologized to the essayist and the public. I haven’t seen hell with my family for three weeks,” added the artist.
“All this is unworthy of a public debate,” the artist also explained during the summer universities of the rebels.
justice taken
Rachel Khan is not convinced by the “artist apologies”. “She attacked me personally on my trip, on my ideas. And in general she apologizes to me,” she laments. “I have a problem with this left that no longer defends the republican principles that are typical of it,” the actress also judges.
The Renaissance deputy, François Cormier-Bouligeon, took legal action by sending a letter to the Paris prosecutor.
Source: BFM TV
