MUSIC – North Irish rappers of Kneecap are suspected of having made remarks encouraging violence against conservative deputies and supporting Hamas
What exactly did they say? British anti-terrorist police opened an investigation into North Irish rappers in Kneecap on Thursday. They are suspected of having made remarks encouraging violence. Against conservative deputies but also support for Hamas.
The investigators, who examined two concert videos dated 2023 and 2024 announced Thursday “that there were enough reasons to investigate possible offenses” committed by the Belfast group, known for its punk and rebel attitude, and its support for the Palestinian cause.
On one of the videos broadcast online, one of the rappers seems to shout “Go Hamas, go the Hezbollah” during a concert in London last year. On the other, dated November 2023, a person on stage declares that a “good Tory [membre du parti conservateur britannique] is a dead Tory. Kill your MP ”.
-Kneecap deprogrammed by several festivals
The leader of Conservatives Kemi Badenoch immediately claimed the group’s ban, and elected officials urged the Glastonbury Festival to deprogram the rappers from the planned edition at the end of June.
These recordings were exhumed a few days after the group’s concert at the Californian Coachella festival, where he broadcast messages against Israel which aroused strong reactions. Kneecap has already been dismissed from a festival in Cornwalls (southwest of England), two others in Germany, where three concerts scheduled in September have auss (…)
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