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France fines comedian 10,000 euros over anti-Semitic stunt
By Haaretz Service
Tags: israel news, france 

A French court on Tuesday fined a right-wing comedian 10,000 euros for "public anti-Semitic insults" after he invited Robert Faurisson, an academic and Holocaust denier, on stage during a comedy show to receive an "award" from an actor dressed as a Jewish deportee.

The Paris court told Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, a 43-year-old French stand-up comic, to pay a further 10,000 in damages and legal fees to organizations that sued him, French news agency AFP reported.

Dieudonne told the court that the show had been intended as a "comedy bomb attack" but defended his right to free expression. Anti-racism and Jewish groups welcomed the verdict, AFP reported.
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Dieudonne has courted controversy in the past. Earlier this year he tried entering politics by running for the European parliament as head of an anti-Zionist party.

In 2007, the comedian was fined after he accused Jews of exploiting "memorial pornography" and attacked a "Zionist lobby which cultivates the idea of their unique suffering...and has declared war on the black world."

Two months later he was back in court and fined 5,000 euros for having compared Jews to "slave-traders."

He remains under investigation over a video circulating on the Internet in which he appears to attack a "yid Zionist lobby" led by "racist liars."
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  1.   French stand up comic. 10:03  |  David Nigel Braham 28/10/09
  2.   This Should Set a Precedent 14:57  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/10/09
  3.   What is even more worrying is... 15:17  |  Ronald 28/10/09
  4.   No Freedom of Speech in France? 15:19  |  MIKE 28/10/09
  5.   No humor in Holocaust Jokes 15:30  |  Stephen 28/10/09
  6.   #3 actually you have no evidence of that whatsoever 16:25  |  McQueen 28/10/09
  7.   10,000 euros couldn`t have bought him..... 17:36  |  Deborah 28/10/09
  8.   Yaacov Sullivan 17:38  |  Philippe 28/10/09
  9.   #3 Is absolutly right. Remember the offensive cartoons ... 17:49  |  Mark 28/10/09
  10.   It is a freedom of speech issue. 18:03  |  ANY 28/10/09
  11.   Hareetz don`t lie and get your facts straight 18:08  |  OnlyMe 28/10/09
  12.   Donald you are wrong 18:14  |  OnlyMe 28/10/09
  13.   Sio careful with those Muslim jokes in the future 18:55  |  Frank 28/10/09
  14.   Mark 22:30  |  David 28/10/09
  15.   above 22:52  |  moishe 28/10/09
  16.   No Freedom of Speech in France 02:48  |  david kremen 29/10/09
  17.   French Coward 03:32  |  Frank 29/10/09
  18.   He`s been doing this for years 03:44  |  Ben 29/10/09
  19.   Yaakov Sullivan! 06:43  |  Michael Dar 29/10/09
  20.   freedom of speech 07:37  |  jeff 29/10/09
  21.   You can`t compare with Muslims/Christians 08:34  |  Frenchguy 29/10/09
  22.   On The Contrary - Ronald No. 6 11:50  |  Michael 29/10/09
  23.   freedom of speech 12:16  |  Ralph 29/10/09
  24.   ONLY Me Holocaust denial is anti Zionist is it?? 12:39  |  PETER SM 29/10/09
  25.   #3 Ronald, Show us one Israeli or Jewish comedian 12:56  |  Israeli Atheist 29/10/09
  26.   Frenchguy, if u only knew... 12:59  |  Sanjeeda 29/10/09
  27.   Reply to #3 15:12  |  Sherlock Holmes 29/10/09
  28.   Humour ? 15:18  |  Danny 29/10/09
  29.   #11 Get your facts straight 15:21  |  Akiva 29/10/09
  30.   MIKE - You don`t insult 6 Million Jews murdered for being Jewish. 15:45  |  DERF 29/10/09
  31.   French comic 16:04  |  dee 29/10/09
  32.   Vive la difference! 16:05  |  utagawa 29/10/09
  33.   He should be in jail,but don`t cry "free speech"when islam mocked 18:30  |  Adam Rahman 29/10/09
  34.   Sanjeeda if only you knew, you are a nut 19:09  |  Lbnaz 29/10/09
  35.   Anti Zionism 21:20  |  Jerry 29/10/09
  36.   let the comic come to america 21:26  |  ross 29/10/09
  37.   anti Zionism 21:26  |  Jerry 29/10/09
  38.   French comedian 22:32  |  The Teacher/Instruct 29/10/09
  39.   you would not joke about the Tutsi murders 04:26  |  sWeis Melbourne 30/10/09
  40.   this guy is hate driven 04:28  |  sWeis Melbourne 30/10/09
  41.   Ideas should be punished. 20:42  |  Andy S 06/11/09
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