{"id":12558,"date":"2014-01-10T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12558"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:58:58","slug":"dieudonne-show-banned-in-france-due-to-anti-jewish-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12558","title":{"rendered":"Dieudonne show banned in France due to anti-Jewish remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The highest court in France has reinstated a ban on a show by controversial comic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, just before it was due to open.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Manuel Valls appealed to the Council of State to intervene minutes after a judge in the city of Nantes overturned the ban.<\/p>\n

The comic has seven convictions for anti-Semitic hate speech.<\/p>\n

He has already arrived at the theatre in Nantes, where more than 5,000 people were due to see the show.<\/p>\n

Police have deployed outside the venue as a precaution. The verdict was greeted with boos and chants of Dieudonne’s name by those who had gathered to see the show.<\/p>\n

On his Facebook page, Dieudonne appealed to those gathered outside Nantes’ Zenith theatre to return peacefully to their homes, saying he had been denied permission to address them.<\/p>\n

He said that on Friday he would post a new video on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

The judge in Nantes had earlier said he did not regard the show, entitled The Wall, as having “an attack on human dignity as its main object”.<\/p>\n

But the Council of State upheld the ban on Thursday’s performance, the first on a scheduled tour, despite a challenge by the comic’s lawyers saying his freedom of expression had been breached.<\/p>\n

The council cited the risk to public order in its reinstatement of the ban.<\/p>\n

The president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, had called on France to “confront this preacher of hate head on”.<\/p>\n

The government can be satisfied that a man they regard as a dangerous anti-Semite has been kept from the public arena, the BBC’s Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.<\/p>\n

Dieudonne’s supporters will say it is just more evidence of how he and his ideas are silenced by the system, he adds.<\/p>\n

‘Peddlers of hate’<\/span><\/h3>\n

French media who have sent reporters to previous performances of the The Wall say it contained a string of derogatory references to Jews.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Thursday from Brittany, Mr Valls said that “peddlers of hate stop at nothing and show boundless creativity”.<\/p>\n

“Faced with this creativity of hate, should we do nothing? Certainly not. The status quo is not a solution,” he said.<\/p>\n

The French government made a concerted effort to stop the tour after Dieudonne was recorded making remarks about Jewish journalist Patrick Cohen.<\/p>\n

“When I hear him talking, I say to myself: Patrick Cohen, hmm… the gas chambers\u2026 what a shame,” Dieudonne was recorded as saying. – extract from bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n

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