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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

Petition launched to stop Kanye West appearing at Slovakian festival

Kanye West appearing at the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in New York, 13 June 2025.
Kanye West appearing at the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in New York on 13 June. Photograph: Larry Neumeister/AP

A petition has been launched calling on the mayor of Bratislava to prevent Kanye West – legally known as Ye – from headlining a festival in Bratislava, calling the planned appearance “an insult to historic memory, a glorification of wartime violence and debasement of all victims of the Nazi regime”.

The Rubicon festival in the Slovakian capital claimed that they had secured an exclusive performance by the “hip-hop visionary, cultural icon and controversial genius” for mid-July.

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