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Madonna drops Marine Le Pen swastika image from MDNA tour

Singer tones down video clip of far-right politician by replacing swastika with question mark, following threats from Front National leaderMadonna has toned down her criticism of far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, modifying a tour video that superimposed a swastika over her face. Performing in Nice on Tuesday, Madonna again projected an image of Le Pen, but this time superimposed a question mark.By playing nice in Nice, the singer was seen to have bowed to pressure from Le Pen's Front Na...

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11:15 on August 22 2012

Madonna - Madonna Ditches Swastika Footage For France Concert

ContactMusic — Madonna dropped a controversial image of a swastika from her show in Nice France on Tuesday 21Aug12 just weeks after causing uproar at a concert in the countrys capital P... more info

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09:21 on August 23 2012

Madonna drops Marine Le Pen swastika image from MDNA tour

Guardian Music — Singer tones down video clip of far-right politician by replacing swastika with question mark, following threats from Front National leaderMadonna has toned down her crit... more info

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18:57 on August 23 2012

Madonna - Madonna Edits Concert Images To Appease French National Front

ContactMusic — Madonna has conceded defeat and toned down images that had previously caused controversy with the French Nationalist Party reports The New York Times French newspapers sn... more info

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02:05 on August 24 2012

Madonna Removes Swastika from MDNA Concerts

411 Mania — Madonna ops to remove the image from her show... more info

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13:43 on August 24 2012

Madonna - Madonna Appeases Critics By Dropping Swastika Image

ContactMusic — Madonna cooked up a storm when she was last in France on her worldwide Mdna tour earlier this year when her performance featured a video of ultra-right National Front par... more info

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