The organization preferred to take no risk. A music festival in Sweden decided on Friday to cancel a concert by the Swedish rapper Yassin, following media information reporting an assassination project targeting the artist, the organizers said.
Yassin Mahamoud, known by his artist name Yassin, has millions of listening to Spotify and has been repeatedly in the Swedish hit-parades.
Described by the Swedish news agency TT as one of the “most controversial rappers, but also the most influential in Sweden”, he was sentenced to ten months in prison in 2021 for his role in the kidnapping of a rival artist, Einar, who was shot dead later in the year.
The performance of Yassin at the Brännbollsyran music festival, in the city of Umea on Friday, would have formed the artist’s first concert in Sweden for nine years.
But according to the daily AFTONBLADET, the police arrested two young men suspected of being involved in an assassination project targeting the rapper on the occasion of the concert scheduled for Friday. The organizer said he had decided to cancel the concert “on the basis of a complete assessment in collaboration with the police”.
Visitors safety, priority of organizers
“The reason is the concern of visitors and staff in connection with the information reported by the media, which has rendered its performance impossible,” wrote Brännbollsyran in a post on Instagram. The security of visitors and staff is priority and the festival “will also continue as planned,” added the organizer.
Yassin was appointed artist of the year and Hip-Hop/RNB artist of the year during the P3 Guldgalan awards, organized by Swedish public radio, in 2021. In April, the Dagens newspaper etc said that another Yassin concert in Stockholm, scheduled for last year, had also been canceled after the police had warned the organizer of his concerns.
