French Rapper, Booba, Apologizes for Controversial Remarks on New Year Greetings and Muslims

“Please with ‘Happy New Year’, ‘New Year’, let me, you know I never replied to that, and you keep sending me some until January, February. In addition, the Muslims (Muslims, Editor’s note), we have the same conviction, stop with that. It’s Muslims who send me this, most of the time. Brothers, don’t do this,’ he said in his Instagram story.

At the microphone of Léa Salamé, he confided that he regrets his words today: “I should not have made this video, it was not good. I’m sorry, my mother is Christian, my father is Christian, they are into Christmas and all that so indirectly they are also the ones who are shocked. I wanted to erase his video, but it was too late by then, it had already circulated too much. We have the right to make mistakes. I try to do as little as possible, I know that I am a loudspeaker, that people listen to me, but that is something that I cannot assimilate all the time”, has he explained.