WARSAW: A Polish stadium stated on Friday (Apr 17) that it’s going to cancel a live performance by US rapper Kanye West days after he postponed a show in France amid a furore over his previous antisemitic feedback and celebration of Nazism.
“We wish to inform you that the Ye (Kanye West) live performance deliberate for 19 June 2026 on the … Slaski stadium won’t happen as a consequence of formal and authorized causes,” stadium director Adam Strzyzewski stated in an announcement posted on Fb.
The choice by the Slaski stadium within the western metropolis of Chorzow, first reported by Wyborcza newspaper on its web site, comes simply over every week after Britain blocked the 48-year-old from travelling there to headline a competition.
There was no rapid remark from the rapper, now often known as Ye, who in January apologised for his behaviour, which he attributed to untreated bipolar dysfunction, and renounced previous expressions of admiration for Adolf Hitler.
Authorities in Poland had already signalled they’d search to ban the deliberate June 19 live performance.
“In a rustic scarred by the historical past of the Holocaust, we can not fake that that is simply leisure,” Polish Tradition Minister Marta Cienkowska stated on Thursday.
Greater than 1.1 million individuals, most of them Jews, had been murdered on the Auschwitz dying camp in Nazi-occupied Poland throughout World Battle Two. Nazi Germany killed greater than 3 million of Poland‘s 3.2 million Jewish inhabitants.
Ye was barred from Australia final 12 months after releasing a music selling Nazism and promoting swastika T-shirts on his web site.
He has carried out in the US and Mexico Metropolis this 12 months, with additional live performances deliberate in Europe and Asia.
