The organisers of a stadium in Poland announced today that the concert that American rapper Kanye West was scheduled to give has been cancelled, days after the cancellation of a show in France due to outrage caused by his previous antisemitic statements and his positions in support of Nazism.

“We would like to inform you that the concert of Ye scheduled for June 19, 2026 at the Slaski stadium will not take place due to formal and legal reasons,” said stadium director Adam Strzyzewski in a Facebook post.

The decision by the Slaski stadium in the western city of Chorzów, first reported by the newspaper Wyborcza on its website, comes just one week after the UK banned the 48-year-old from travelling to the country to take part in a festival.

So far the rapper, now known as Ye, has not made any comment, while in January he apologised for his behaviour, which he attributed to the bipolar disorder he suffers from and for which he is not receiving treatment, and retracted earlier statements expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler.

Polish authorities had already indicated they would seek to ban the planned June 19 concert.

“In a country marked by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is simply entertainment,” said Poland’s Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska yesterday.

More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. Nazi Germany killed more than 3 million of the 3.2 million Jewish population of Poland.

Ye was banned from entering Australia last year after releasing a song supporting Nazism and selling swastika T-shirts on his website.

This year he performed concerts in the US and Mexico City, with further appearances scheduled in Europe and Asia.