Freeze Corleone was to be the headliner of the Booming fest, in March 2023 at Liberté. And that does not please Charles Compagnon. During the city council on December 5, the boss of the opposition Libre d’agir pour Rennes castigated the “inconsistency” of the city. “On March 18, 2023, as part of the 2nd edition of the Booming fest, at Liberté, the headliner will be Freeze Corleone. For those who don’t know, Freeze Corleone is a rapper who makes clear and unambiguous anti-Semitic remarks. He praises Adolf Hitler and the 3rd Reich. (…) And in Rennes, we are going to welcome this person? The inconsistency is, on the one hand, to do a duty of memory with the veterans, on May 8, to celebrate the victory of the Allies over Nazism or even to highlight people like Magda Hollander-Lafon and d ‘another side receive headlining this Freeze Corleone’.
Pass of arms between Nathalie Appéré and Charles Compagnon
Stung to the quick, the mayor of Rennes also accused Charles Compagnon of lacking consistency. She pointed to different votes in the City and in the Metropolis on identical subjects, provoking the ire of the elected opposition member.
On the merits, Nathalie Appéré continued her intervention by indicating that she had discovered “last week” the presence of the rapper with controversial texts and asked Citédia, which manages the performance hall, to approach the producer “so that this programming be reviewed “. The mayor of Rennes specifies that the rapper “has not been the subject of conviction” but that “these remarks are not acceptable”.
In September 2020, the artist, who also navigates in the conspiratorial sphere, had been targeted by an investigation for provocation to racial hatred and racist insult following texts from his album The Phantom Menace. The case had been dismissed without further action. Following this investigation, the Universal label had released the rapper from Lilas.
His concert, scheduled for December 4, 2022 in Montreal, was recently canceled under pressure from the Jewish organization B’nai brith Canada.