equivocal Statements journalist Patrick Cohen, “neutrality” ambiguous between Jews and Nazis, jingle about the Holocaust … The Paris court has sentenced Thursday, March 19, Dieudonné M’Bala M ‘ Bala for incitement to racial hatred. The latter, as his lawyer was absent at the decision of the court.
The statements defendants were held by Dieudonné in his show The Wall . The prosecution had requested sentences two hundred and fifty days fine of 100 euros, totaling 30,000 euros, against former comedian, tried in two separate cases. If he does not pay the full for each conviction, he will go to prison
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Dieudonné was sentenced to 22 500 euro fine for having stated in his show:
“I, when I hear talk, Patrick Cohen [ journalist at France Inter, who was not a civil party], I tell myself, you know, the gas chambers … Too bad. “
For the Court, these words are far from being part of a feud between the two men, unlike the Dieudonné argument, and based on the fact that Mr. Cohen is Jewish.
An insidious formulation
Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala will, in addition, pay 8,000 euros in damages and 1,500 euros in legal fees to the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the National Bureau of Vigilance against the Semitism, both associations were formed plaintiff.
The Wall , Dieudonné said “do not have to choose between Jews and Nazis “ ” I am neutral in this matter. I was not born. What happened? That caused that? I have my own idea, but … “ An insidious formulation, ” close revisionism “ for the court.
The court also criticized the song Holocaust babes , catchphrase fans Dieudonne, a tune borrowed from Annie Cordy singer. The words – “You hold me by the Holocaust, I hold you by pineapple” – were, too, considered a racial slur, the judges felt that they turn the Holocaust derision and undermine the dignity of the Jewish community.
Sept convictions
When his appearance on January 28, the accused claimed not to be anti-Semitic “because it’s not funny” to be. “The question is not whether [Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala] is anti-Semitic or not , the prosecutor had replied. This is not anti-Semitic thinking that is the problem, it’s the attack. “
His show The Wall was canceled in several cities in France in early 2014 Pulse Manuel Valls, then Minister of the Interior. The DVD was banned from marketing March 4, a decision which polemicist has appealed.
Wednesday, Dieudonné was sentenced to two months in prison suspended for condoning terrorism because of a message posted on Facebook after jihadist attacks in early January in France, who had seventeen dead. Another judgment is waiting in a case where he is prosecuted for calling Manuel Valls at the end of August 2013 “Mussolini half trisomic” . Dieudonné has already been sentenced to seven times to insult or antisemitic provocation
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