Overview
- Kanye West said he has postponed his June 11 concert in Marseille, citing the risk of a possible ban on entering France.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez is reviewing legal tools to block the show because of West’s documented antisemitic statements.
- Nuñez met regional prefect Jacques Witkowski and Marseille’s mayor Benoît Payan to map potential steps to stop the event.
- French case law allows authorities to prohibit a concert only in narrow cases where speech could be a crime or public order is threatened, according to Le Monde.
- Pressure grew after the UK barred West and his Wireless Festival headlining slot collapsed when sponsors withdrew.