Controversy in Medina: ‘We got it all wrong’, suggests Marie Toussaint, Mathilde Pano ‘honored’

Is Nupes’ political comeback tainted by Medina controversy? The rapper’s invitation to Europe Ecologie-les-Verts (EELV) summer days and La France insoumise (LFI) summer universities causes a split within the coalition and is heavily criticized by the opposition. A recent tweet by the artist against the essayist Rachel Hahn, who is considered anti-Semitic, added fuel to the fire.

Despite the latter’s apologies, especially in our columns, Nupes’ elected officials attempted to put out the fire this Wednesday morning, but without using the same link. As for the EELV, Marie Toussaint, MEP and head of the EELV list in the European elections, has made some sort of blame on Information about France. “I guess we made a mistake. The problem is not in Medina, but in us. We were looking for a high and we got it in the worst possible way. We do not joke with anti-Semitism,” she said.

“We got it all wrong from A to Z. (…) We set ourselves a trap and we definitely need to have time to move on,” the MEP added, specifying that the presence of the rapper still remains, implying that it was “too late” to cancel . On the other hand, she won’t listen to him during Thursday’s exchange of views between the rapper and environmentalist national secretary Marine Tondelier. “I will be somewhere else at this time,” Marie Toussaint justified herself.

Earlier in the show The Four Truths of TelemathenOn France 2, Paris environmental MP Julien Baiou called Medina’s tweet “dirty”. “He has since apologized, but that’s not enough,” he said.

According to him, “perhaps it would be easier not to invite him,” however, “I think that now, when the dispute has grown so much, it is important that we can find time for discussion. It is necessary to be able to have an explanation for the text.” And add: ” I trust Marine Tondelier to formulate the debate, break it down if there is no clarification, and reaffirm the priority of combating anti-Semitism.”

Medina is the victim of an “ignoble cabal”

On the other hand, from the side of Insoumis, it is estimated that “there is no subject of the Medina,” said Mathilde Pano, the rebel MP for Val-de-Marne, in France Inter this morning. The president of the LFI group at the National Assembly even said she was “honoured”, “happy and happy” to have the rapper at the LFI Summer Universities on Saturday.

Medina is the victim of “a despicable cabal led by the far right, hand in hand with macroonists,” she said, adding that “it’s unbearable when someone is denigrated as an anti-Semite.” Determined to protect the artist, she assured that “Medine is not an anti-Semite, he is a committed rapper (…), a man with rights who opposes any discrimination and is against pension reform.

in parallel on BFMTV, Rebellious Bouches-du-Rhone MP Manuel Bompard felt that “the procedure used against Medina is odious, misleading and disgraceful”, accusing the far right of “instrumentalizing” this campaign against the rapper “to shut up his”.

Manuel Bompard said he would “understand the emotions” of Rachel Kahn after the artist’s tweet. But, according to him, the dispute is no longer relevant: “How long will this continue? He made mistakes, he admitted them. This is good. »