{"id":6342,"date":"2026-04-15T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:16:17","slug":"kanye-west-postpones-gig-as-he-faces-france-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6342\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West postpones gig as he faces France ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">US rapper Kanye West has postponed his performance at Marseille&#8217;s Stade Velodrome in June as he faces a ban from entering France. It comes days after the artist was banned from entering the UK, leading to the cancellation of Wireless Festival where he was announced as the headliner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday, April 7, after criticism from multiple UK politicians the Home Office stopped him from entering the country on the grounds that his visit to the UK would &#8220;not be conducive to the public good&#8221;. On multiple occasions Kayne West has made public anti-Semitic, racist and offensive comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to global news agency AFP, a source close to the French interior minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez claimed that he is planning on banning West from France too ahead of his concert in Marseille scheduled for June 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;After much thought and consideration, it is my sole decision to postpone my show in Marseille, France until further notice,&#8221; West wrote on X on Wednesday, April 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The source told the agency that Nu\u00f1ez is &#8220;highly determined&#8221; to make sure the show is cancelled due to West&#8217;s antisemitism. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=73dc4ba7-03fe-43fb-8152-46228482c5b9&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sign up to our newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;sign up to our newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">sign up to our newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">West once made a song called Heil Hitler and released a swastika T-shirt for sale on his website. Nu\u00f1ez has reportedly already started the process to ban the rapper from travelling to France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mayor of Marseille, Beno\u00eet Payan has shared his opposition to allowing the artist into the city, writing: &#8220;I refuse to let Marseille be a showcase for those who promote hatred and unapologetic Nazism. Kanye West is not welcome at the Velodrome, our temple of living together and of all Marseillais.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After being banned from entering the UK West published a statement. He wrote: &#8220;My only goal is to come to London and present a show of change, bringing unity, peach and love through my music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with members of the Jewish community in the UK in person, to listen. I know words aren&#8217;t enough &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to show change through my actions. If you&#8217;re open. I&#8217;m here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US rapper Kanye West has postponed his performance at Marseille&#8217;s Stade Velodrome in June as he faces a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5369,5,5368,3376,5366,46,5367],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-entering-the-uk-west","tag-france","tag-heil-hitler","tag-kanye-west","tag-kayne-west","tag-laurent-nunez","tag-stade-velodrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}