Rapper on trial for taking a liberté
By Charles Bremner and Marie Tourres
The Times
London

A case involving alleged obscene material is being seen as a test of free speech

A VIDEO of naked women writhing against the French flag was played to judges yesterday at the trial of a rap star accused of disseminating obscene material to minors.

Richard Makela, 30, a Zairean-born rapper who performs as Monsieur R, has been brought to trial in a private prosecution by a conservative MP from the Pyrenees who says that lyrics and images from the internet video insult France.

Daniel Mach, an MP for President Chirac’s Union for a Popular Movement, is outraged over FranSSe, a song from Monsieur R’s 2005 album Politikment Incorrekt, in which he vows to urinate on Napoleon Bonaparte and General de Gaulle and says: “France is a bitch/ Don’t forget to f*** her/ To the point of exhaustion/ Like a slut/ She should be insulted.”

The case at Melun, in the southern Paris suburbs, is the latest in a dozen legal actions over the past decade against French rappers for lyrics deemed to insult national institutions. Most have failed.

Dominique Tricaud, the lawyer representing Monsieur R, said that he was certain his client would be acquitted in the name of freedom of speech, the grounds that have been used to exonerate performers in previous cases.

Monsieur R could face three years in prison or a €74,000 (£51,000) fine. But convictions in previous cases have produced suspended sentences and lesser fines.

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The video for "FranSSe" also enraged his critics — France was represented by two nude women rubbing themselves with the French flag; France was compared to the 3rd Reich; and French leaders were accused of neo-colonialism. The video included excerpts from a Jacques Chirac speech from the 1995 election and of his meeting with Zaïre's former dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko.

The district where Monsieur R grew up, Seine-Saint-Denis, was at the centre of rioting that saw 3,000 arrests and 9,000 burnt cars. By November 25, 200 French MPs (not including Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin) had laid the blame on seven rap groups, including Monsieur R. They have called for these groups to be prosecuted. Monsiuer R's opinion on the subject: "Hip hop is a crude art, so we use crude words. It is not a call to violence"

“France is a bitch/ Don’t forget to f*** her/ To the point of exhaustion/ Like a slut/ She should be insulted.”

Damn, that's poetry. The translation is probably superior to the original. He's the French Too Short! Vive le thugs!

in which he vows to urinate on Napoleon Bonaparte and General de Gaulle .

shit i've done that AND i've even thrown in lafeyette


piss on thier graves me frunchie nigga


RIGHT ON !

Freedom of expression does not exist in a socialist society. First they get your guns, then everything else.

Monsieur R - FranSSe:
www.dailymotion.com . . .

FREE Makela!! He speaketh truth to and of the frogs. I move to make him honory chairman of FuckFrance.

Monsieur R ?

Morrowbie ?

--Sternboden

Let's name streets after Markela in his honor. What he is saying is what we at FF have been saying for ages. Why does France run and hide from the truth? Everyone knows her as a bitch suitable only for fucking and urinating on. The rapper is spot on. France actually enjoyed her bitch role when done by her ally, Hitler's SS. It was her association with Hitler that France learned to respect freedom of speech that we see today. France, truly the stink on shit that even her perfume cannot hide.

If this fucker hates France so much he should get his black ass back to the Congo. I hate rapper scum.

Mr. R.'s lyrics are absolutely CORRECT. franSSe is a bitch you should fuck — at least when you're a belgian niggah. Personnaly, I wouldn't touch such a syphilitic whore; I don't want my dick to fall off…

monsieur R = jeanv

(Daniel Mach) ...a conservative MP from the Pyrenees who says that lyrics and images from the internet video insult France.[/b]
Poor Gaulistan... so egotistical over its glorious history, but can't figure out that the rest of the world hates them.

[q]By November 25, 200 French MPs (not including Villepin) had laid the blame on seven rap groups, including Monsieur R. They have called for these groups to be prosecuted.

Correction: FranSSe is a socialist whore who sells herself out to the highest bidder. The list include Nazi Germany, foreign dictators such as Arafat, and Sese Seko. She should yank her head out of the dirt and face reality that France is an enabler.

Fucking racist.

No wonder he made his disc in the USA.



That is all this rabbit skin's hero deserves after a fair trial.

If this fucker hates France so much he should get his black ass back to the Congo. I hate rapper scum.

I also hate this kind of guys! K+ gwym.
They use pseudo freedom of expression to spread their anti white, anti jews, anti christian, anti occident, anti women hate speechs, they love to appear as big bad thugs on clips, beating cops and all that, tbh, i just dont care if one of them go to jail.

Je mêne personnellement ma petite croisade contre ce Monsieur R et son apologie du viol et du racisme anti-blanc sur fond de bienpensance à vomir.

La Fnac l'a honoré de son "coup de coeur"... j'ai donc décidé d'aller très régulièrement prélever ces disques dans le rayon rap pour les planquer derrière des auteurs inconnus du rayon classique. Ils ne sont pas près de les vendre...

Je vous invite à en faire autant. Personnellement, je m'occupe de la fnac Montparnasse. Je vous laisse les autres.

Les cités et les beurs n'ont pas besoin de ces crétins qui soufflent sur les braises!

Il a besoin de plomb dans la cervelle, faut arrêter de gueuler rôh...

I love it! This a cleverly designed to intimidate and pussify the French: insults, riots, gangs - little by little without provoking major retaliation - until their dominance will be accepted as a "new reality".