{"id":240787,"date":"2026-03-05T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240787"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:42:56","slug":"kanye-west-concert-blocked-by-marseille-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240787\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West concert blocked by Marseille mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The mayor of the southern city of Marseille, France’s second-biggest city, does not want American rapper Kanye “Ye” West anywhere near his city, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Mayor Benoît Payan has opposed West’s visit, after the controversial singer announced a concert at the Vélodrome stadium on 11 June.<\/p>\n

In a message posted on X, Payan said: “I refuse to let Marseille become a showcase for those who promote hatred and unapologetic Nazism. Kanye West is not welcome at the Vélodrome, our temple of living together and of all Marseillais.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mayor of the southern city of Marseille, France’s second-biggest city, does not want American rapper Kanye “Ye” West anywhere near his city, Euronews writes. Mayor Benoît Payan has opposed West’s visit, after the controversial singer announced a concert at the Vélodrome stadium on 11 June. In a message posted on X, Payan said: “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240788,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240787\/revisions\/240788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}