Australia canceled the sulfurous American rapper Kanye West visa due to its song glorifying the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the government announced on Wednesday.
(Keystone-ATS) “Promote this kind of Nazism; We don’t need it in Australia, “said Interior Minister Tony Burke on the ABC public channel.
The 48 -year -old musician, who legally changed his name in Ye, released “Heil Hitler” on May 8, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
The song, prohibited on large platforms like YouTube, quickly garnered millions of listening on the social network X. The clip shows a set of African-American extras carrying beast skins and taking up the title of the song, which salutes Adolf Hitler, head in 1933 and 1945 of a regime responsible for the extermination of some six million Jews in Europe.
The song ends with a speech delivered by the Nazi dictator.
The rapper, whose wife Bianca Censori is Australian, has been coming to Australia for some time to visit the family in the country, added Mr. Burke.
“He made a lot of offensive comments. But my officials re-examined the situation when he released the song “Heil Hitler” and he no longer has a valid visa in Australia, “he added.
According to the minister, the level of cancellation of the visa does not, however, concern the organization of concerts.
Asked about the viability of a ban on a personality as popular as the American rapper, the minister replied that, according to him, “what is not viable is to import hatred”.
However, he said that Australian immigration officials re -evaluated each visa request. Australian citizens enjoy freedom of expression, added Mr. Burke, “but we already have enough problems in this country so as not to deliberately import fanaticism”.
Formerly celebrated for a musical writing which had allowed him to glean 24 grammys, Kanye West has multiplied in recent years anti -Semitic statements and support for Nazism.
Admirer of the American president Donald Trump, he also went to support in June the tribunal the hip-hop p.diddy magnate, tried for trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and criminal enterprise.
He must give his only European concert on July 20 in Slovakia, in Bratislava. More than 3,000 people have signed a petition against his arrival, two associations accusing him of having “openly adhered to the Nazi ideology”.
