2023-09-06 17:18:18
NurPhoto via Getty Images The prefect of police of Paris bans Dieudonné’s show at the Zénith.
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The prefect of police of Paris prohibits the show of Dieudonné at the Zénith.
PARIS – The show will not take place. The prefect of police Laurent Nuñez has decided to ban the performance of the controversial humorist Dieudonné, scheduled for September 14 at the Zenith in Paris, AFP learned this Wednesday, September 6 from a source familiar with the matter.
In his banning order, which will be made public in the next few hours, the prefect of police noted that he was “ common knowledge than the tenor of previous shows” from Dieudonne defended the discrimination, persecution and extermination perpetrated during the Second World War..
He also considered that the elements put forward by the lawyer” of the controversial comedian were “ not likely to prevent the making of remarks undermining human dignity during the show and thus do not provide sufficient guarantees on the absence of disturbances to public order..
Third argument, Laurent Nuñez underlines, that in an article of Rivarol (extreme right press organ) of August 29, Dieudonné had stigmatized “ the jewish lobby claiming to want fight this hateful and racist lobby”. However, the show in question was to take place the day before the celebration by the Jewish community of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which celebrates the new year in the Hebrew calendar, and “near a synagogue” raises the prefect of police.
Yet another controversial show, with Francis Lalanne
Dieudonné had sent in June the text of his show ” The Fool’s Cage » to the prefect, which he planned to feature with antivax singer Francis Lalanne. The lawyer for the comedian who has been convicted of racial slurs and incitement to hatred, then assured that the content of this show would not be subject to “no controversy”.
An opinion little shared by Laurent Nuñez, who already mentioned last August “attacks on human dignity” in the content of the show. The latter had then warned Dieudonné of this possibility of prohibition due in particular to “risk of serious disturbance to public order”which he reiterated in the decree motivating his decision.
Dieudonné and Francis Lalanne had already tried to play “The Fool’s Cage” at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris on April 7. The show had not taken place because “the commercial offer presented to the Cirque d’Hiver, which was that of farewell concerts by Francis Lalanne, did not correspond to the reality of what was really planned”argued the lawyer for the Bouglione family, owner of the hall, in Le Parisien.
At the end of April, the Zenith of Paris had announced its « vigilance »in particular with regard to respect for ” public order “in the event of the reception of this show in September, recalling that a ban returned “to competent authorities only”.
Since 2002, Dieudonné has been the subject of numerous legal proceedings. In particular, he was sentenced in September 2020 to a fine of 10,000 euros for racist remarks made in June 2017 during his show on “Quenelles Ball”.
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