Stormzy cancels Snowbombing appearance and accuses festival of "racial profiling"

Austria's Snowbombing Festival has announced the cancellation of Stormzy and his remaining #Merky takeover shows. In a statement, the festival wrote, "Last night (Wednesday 10) Snowbombing's security were alerted to the possibility that an individual at the festival was allegedly carrying a weapon. In accordance with protocol, a small number of attendees, including Stormzy’s manager were escorted to the nearest exit, searched and no weapon was found. Stormzy's management were unhappy with the manner by which this took place and as a result Stormzy will no longer be performing tonight."

The announcement of his cancellation resulted in a response from Stormzy himself via his Instagram stories, in which he accuses the festival of "racial profiling", after "security targeted them (despite no one fitting the description), were physically aggressive when handling them and there's been no effort from the festival to actually deal and address the problem."

In another story, he apologised to all those who had bought tickets, "The last ever thing I wanna do is let down anyone who's taken time out to support me. So please hear me out, I too would be fuming if I travelled and spent money to go and watch an artist and they pull out last minute."

He apologised again in his most recent story, before going on to state, "I need you to understand why this is necessary in the grand scheme of tryna fight back against racism."