Dieudonne, the controversial French comic who has been branded an anti-Semitic “pedlar of hate” by the government, on Thursday won the first round of a legal battle to be allowed to start a nationwide tour. A judge in Nantes ordered local authorities…
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A high profile French comic, who could be slapped with a rare ban from the national stage, ironically began his career fighting racism before falling from grace as a “trader of hate”. Dieudonne, the burly and bearded comedian known by one name, is no…
Prosecutors in Paris on Monday launched a probe into whether a French comedian was guilty of inciting racial hatred by joking about “gas chambers” while talking about a Jewish journalist. Dieudonne, who has drawn controversy over an increasingly copied…