2023-09-07 17:25:39
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 2 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
The comedian repeatedly convicted of racial insults and incitement to hatred was to present his new show with anti-vax singer Francis Lalanne. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
La Cage aux fous scheduled for September 14 in the Parisian theater was banned by the police prefect due to “risk of serious disturbances to public order” in view of its repeated anti-Semitic remarks.
Controversial comedian Dieudonné filed an appeal on Thursday with the Paris administrative court against the police prefect’s ban on his show at the Zénith on September 14, his lawyer said, confirming information from Libération.
Already refused in several cities, the show was banned on Wednesday due to “risk of serious disturbances to public order” in view of its repeated anti-Semitic remarks. This Parisian ban comes in addition to those taken during the summer in Lyon, Grenoble, Montpellier and Toulouse, where the comedian repeatedly convicted of racial insults and incitement to hatred was to present his new show The Fool’s Cage, with anti-vax singer Francis Lalanne. His lawyer, Me Emmanuel Ludot, indicated that he had filed two summary proceedings against this ban on Thursday, one concerning Dieudonné and the other Francis Lalanne. The administrative court told AFP that a hearing was set for Friday at 4 p.m.
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«I especially criticize the lack of characterization of the disturbance to public order and the disproportionate nature“, said the lawyer. “The bans that have continued to rain down in reality amount to putting in place a generalized and perpetual ban against Dieudonné. It’s no longer the texts the problem, now it’s the man“, he said. He spoke of a “very atypical situation», explaining to have “submitted» this summer the text of the show to the police prefect, proposed to amend it, to bring in a “commissioner of justice” then “to postpone the date” a spectacle. Concerning Francis Lalanne, “the decree does not provide for any prohibition“, it is therefore “unenforceable», Maintains the lawyer.
A ban envisaged at the beginning of August
At the beginning of August, the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez had warned Dieudonné of this possibility of ban due in particular to “risk of serious disturbances to public order”, which he reiterated in the decree motivating his decision. Several exchanges took place between the police headquarters and the polemicist’s lawyer. In his banning order, Laurent Nuñez noted that it was “common knowledge that the tenor of previous shows» by Dieudonné «defended the discrimination, persecution and extermination perpetrated during the Second World War“. He further considered that the “elements put forward by the lawyer» of the comedian were “not likely to prevent comments detrimental to human dignity being made during the show and thus did not provide sufficient guarantees of the absence of disturbances to public order».
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The police chief also noted that this show was to take place the day before the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah and “near a synagogue».
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