Right-wing French leaders call Muslim rapper’s concert at Bataclan ‘sacrilege’

PARIS — Right-wing French leaders condemn as “sacrilege” a decision to allow a provocative Muslim rapper to play the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where terrorists massacred 90 people three years ago.

Medine — who caused an outcry when he attacked hardline secularists in a controversial 2015 song, “Don’t Laik,” a week before the Charlie Hebdo killings — is to play the Bataclan for two nights in October.

French opposition leader Laurent Wauquiez says he was shocked that “someone who sings about ‘crucifying secularists’ and calls himself ‘Islamo-scum'” should appear at the venue “less than three years after Islamist barbarism cost the lives of 90 of our compatriots.

“It is sacrilege and dishonors France,” the leader of the Republicans party tweets.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says that “no French person can accept that this guy spew out his rubbish at the Bataclan.

“We have had enough of complacency and worse, of this incitement to Islamist fundamentalism,” she adds in a tweet.

An online petition organized by her National Front party calling for the concerts to be banned had over 15,000 signatures by Monday morning.

— AFP