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Dieudonné M'bala M'bala

February 16, 2023

Dieudonné M'bala M'bala (French pronunciation: ​[djødɔne ɛmbala ɛmbala]; born 11 February 1966), generally known by his stage name Dieudo, is a French comedian, actor and political activist. He has been convicted for hate speech,[1] advocating terrorism,[2] and slander[3] in Belgium, France and Switzerland.

Diewudo M'bala M'bala
Dieudonné in 2009
Born (1966-02-11) 11 February 1966 (age 57)
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
NationalityFrench
Other namesDieudo
Occupation(s)Comedian, actor, activist
SpouseNoémie Montagne
Children5
Websitewww.dieudosphere.com

Dieudonné initially achieved success working with comedian Élie Semoun, humorously exploiting racial stereotypes. He was a candidate in the 1997 and 2001 legislative elections in Dreux against the National Front.[4][5] In 2003, Dieudonné performed a sketch on a TV show about an Israeli settler whom he depicted as a Nazi. Some critics argued that he had "crossed the limits of antisemitism" and several organizations sued him for incitement to racial hatred. Dieudonné refused to apologize and denounced Zionism.[6]

In 2007, Dieudonné approached Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front political party that he had fought earlier, and the men became political allies and friends.[7] Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson appeared in one of his shows in 2008.[8][9] Dieudonné described Holocaust remembrance as "memorial pornography".[10] Dieudonné has been convicted in court eight times on antisemitism charges.[11] Dieudonné subsequently found himself regularly banned from mainstream media, and many of his shows were cancelled by local authorities.[8][12][13][14][15][16] Active on the internet and in his Paris theater, Dieudonné has continued to have a following.[17] His quenelle signature gesture became notorious in 2013, particularly after footballer Nicolas Anelka used the gesture during a match in December 2013.

In 2013, after Dieudonné was recorded during a performance mocking a Jewish journalist, suggesting it was a pity that he was not sent to the gas chambers,[18] Interior Minister Manuel Valls stated that Dieudonné was "no longer a comedian" but was rather an "anti-Semite and racist" and that he would seek to ban all Dieudonné's public gatherings as a public safety risk.[19] His shows have been banned in several French cities. On 20 January 2017, the court of appeal of Liège confirmed a first instance sentence of two months of jail time and a €9,000 fine for Dieudonné's anti-Semitic remarks in a performance in Herstal on 14 March 2012.[20]

Dieudonné has also been known to associate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran from 2005 to 2013, who has himself been accused of describing the Holocaust as a myth.[21] On 25 February 2015, Ahmadinejad tweeted "Visiting an old friend, a great artist."[22] The tweet included photographs of himself and Dieudonné, arms around each other, smiling. The two also met in 2009 during a visit by Dieudonné to Iran where they reportedly discussed their shared anti-Zionist views.[23]

Personal life

Dieudonné M'bala M'bala was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is the son of a retired sociologist from Brittany, who is also a painter and exhibits under the name Josiane Grué, and an accountant from Ekoudendi, Cameroon.[10][24] His parents divorced when he was one year old, and he was brought up by his mother. He attended Catholic school, though his mother was a New Age Buddhist.[25] Dieudonné lives with Noémie Montagne, his producer,[26] and has five children with her.[27]

Performing career

Dieudonné began writing and practicing routines with his childhood friend, Jewish comedian and actor Élie Semoun. They formed a comedic duo, Élie et Dieudonné (Élie and Dieudonné), and performed in local cafés and bars while Dieudonné worked as a salesman, selling cars, telephones, and photocopy machines. In 1992, a Paris comedian spotted them and helped them stage their first professional show.[25] In the 1990s, they appeared on stage and on television together as "Élie et Dieudonné". In 1997 they split and each went on to a solo theater career. In 1998, they reunited in a screen comedy, Le Clone,[28] which was a failure critically and financially. From the mid-1990s Dieudonné appeared in several French film comedies, primarily in supporting roles. His most successful screen appearance to date was in Alain Chabat's box-office hit Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra in 2002; in 2004 he appeared in Maurice Barthélémy's box office bomb Casablanca Driver.

Dieudonné's successful one-man shows include Pardon Judas (2000), Le divorce de Patrick (2003), and 1905 (2005). Other one-man shows were Mes Excuses (2004), Dépôt de bilan (2006) and J'ai fait l'con (2008), all understood as attacks on political and social opponents and defences of his own positions. Anti-Semitic statements made within and around these productions led to intense controversy and numerous lawsuits.[29] Following the 2005 civil unrest in France, Dieudonné also penned a play called Émeutes en banlieue (Riots in the Suburbs, February 2006). In 2009, surrounded by scandals (see below, "Political activities"), Dieudonné launched two one-man shows: Liberté d’expression (Freedom of expression) and Sandrine. While the latter was a follow-up to Le divorce de Patrick, the former was conceived as a series of itinerant "conferences" on "free speech".[30] Started on 18 June 2010 in his theater, Dieudonné's most recent show to date, Mahmoud (standing for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) has an openly antisemitic tone,[31] caricaturing Jews, slavery and "official" versions of history.[32]

Dieudonné's production company first acted under the name Bonnie Productions and now under the name Les productions de la Plume.

In 2012, Dieudonné made his directorial debut in a film called L'Antisémite (The Anti-Semite),[33] in which he starred as a violent and alcoholic character who dresses as a Nazi officer at a party, and also features the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson, as well as imagery that mocks Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners.[34] The movie, which was produced by the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center, is also known by the title "Yahod Setiz". Its scheduled screening at the Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film (the parallel film market event) was canceled.[35] The film is to be commercialized on the internet and sold to subscribers of Dieudonné's activities.[36]

Théâtre de la Main d'Or

Dieudonné is the lease holder of the Théâtre de la Main d'Or in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, which is used for both stand-up comedy and political events by himself and friends.

Political activities and views

The quenelle gesture

Main article: Quenelle (gesture)

The quenelle, invented by Dieudonné, is a gesture consisting of a downward straight arm touched at the shoulder by the opposite hand. In French, quenelle normally refers to a type of dumpling. Images of the quenelle were widely shared in 2013, with many individuals posing while performing the quenelle in photos posted to the internet.[37] Dieudonné claims that the gesture is an anti-establishment protest. Officially, French authorities have said the gesture is too vague to take any action against Dieudonné.[38] In December 2013, the French Minister for Sport Valérie Fourneyron publicly criticised the footballer Nicolas Anelka for using the gesture as a goal celebration in an English Premier League match.[39] French international and NBA basketball player Tony Parker also came under fire during the same time period for his use of the gesture.[40] On 30 December 2013, Parker apologized for making the gesture, saying that the photograph had been taken three years earlier and that he had been unaware at the time that it had any anti-Semitic connotation.[41]

On 31 December 2013, Dieudonné released a 15-minute video proposing that "2014 will be the year of the quenelle!".[42] In it, Dieudonné attacks "bankers" and "slavers", so as not to say "Jews"[43] and end up in a lawsuit, and calls upon his followers, "quenelleurs"—those who listen and follow him—towards a hatred of Jews.[43] "Antisemite? I'm not of that opinion," he says in the video. "I'm not saying I'd never be one... I leave myself open to that possibility, but for the moment, no." Later, he added, "I don't have to choose between the Jews and the Nazis."[42][43]

An official January 2014 circular issued by Interior Minister Manuel Valls besides laying out a legal justification for banning antisemitic performances by Dieudonné also specifically linked the quenelle gesture to anti-Semitism and extremism.[44]

Beginnings

Dieudonné was initially active on the anti-racist left. In the 1997 French legislative election, he worked with his party, "Les Utopistes", in Dreux against National Front candidate Marie-France Stirbois and received 8 percent of the vote.[45] Verbally and in demonstrations, he also supported migrants without a residence permit (the so-called "sans papiers") and the Palestinians.

2002–2006

 
Dieudonné in 2006

Since 2002, Dieudonné has attracted attention by making increasingly polemical statements. In an interview for the magazine Lyon Capitale in January 2002, he described "the Jews" as "a sect, a fraud, which is the worst of all, because it was the first" and said he preferred "the charisma of bin Laden to that of Bush".[46] He subsequently tried to run for president in the 2002 presidential election, but failed to get in the race.

On 1 December 2003, he appeared live on a television show disguised as a parody of an Israeli settler wearing military fatigues and a Haredi (Orthodox) Jewish hat. The sketch climaxed with a Hitler salute, after which Dieudonné shouts out a word. According to Dieudonné, he shouted "Israël" in the persona of the Haredi. In the following days, some news agencies stated that he shouted "Isra – Heil" or "Heil Israel".[47][48] He was cleared of charges of antisemitism in a Paris court after the judge said this was not an attack against Jews in general but against a type of person "distinguished by their political views".[49] At the 2004 European Parliament election, Dieudonné was a candidate for the extreme left-wing party "Euro-Palestine", but left a few months after the election because of disagreements with its leaders.[50]

Dieudonné is the director of the Les Ogres website, where he makes plain his denial of the historical version of the 9/11 events. Following this television appearance, a Dieudonné show in Lyon (at La Bourse du Travail) on 5 February 2004 was picketed and a bottle containing a corrosive product was thrown in the venue, injuring a spectator.[51][52] On 11 November, Dieudonné organized a debate with four rabbis of Naturei Karta in the Théâtre de la Main d'Or in Paris.[53]

On 16 February 2005, he declared during a press conference in Algiers that the Central Council of French Jews CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France) was a "mafia" that had "total control over French policy exercise", called the commemoration of the Holocaust "memorial pornography"[10] ("pornographie mémorielle"), and claimed that the "Zionists of the Centre national de la cinématographie," which "control French cinema" prevented him from making a film about the slave trade.[54][55] Dieudonné was also trying to appear as a spokesman for French blacks, but, after some initial sympathy, from the novelist Calixthe Beyala, the journalists Antoine Garnier and Claudy Siar, as well as the founding members of the Conseil représentatif des associations noires (CRAN), he increasingly met with their rejection.[56]

Throughout 2005 and 2006, Dieudonné was often in the company of senior National Front members Bruno Gollnisch,[57] Frédéric Chatillon,[58] and Marc George (also known as Marc Robert), the man who went on to conduct his electoral campaigns in 2007 and 2009.[59] Dieudonné also frequently appeared together with the conspiracy theorist Thierry Meyssan and the former Marxist and current right-wing radical Alain Soral, a confidant of Marine and Jean-Marie Le Pen.[60] Under the influence of Soral's writings and polemics, Dieudonné was acquainted with his militant antisemitism of French nationalist inspiration.[61] In May 2006, he gave a lengthy interview to the far-right monthly Le Choc du mois.[62] Demonstrating shoulder to shoulder with Islamists, he also traveled at the end of August 2006 with Châtillon, Meyssan and Soral in Lebanon, to meet MPs and fighters of the Hezbollah.[58] Some Jews reacted angrily to his comments on this tour. In April 2005, Dieudonné went to Auschwitz.[63] In May 2006 he was involved in a fight with two teenage Jews in Paris, one of whom he sprayed with tear gas. Dieudonné claimed that the teenagers attacked him first; both parties pressed charges,[64] but the lawsuits were not pursued. In France and abroad, Dieudonné became increasingly perceived as an extremist of a type until then uncommon in Europe: in the introduction to a March 2006 interview, The Sunday Independent of South Africa called him a "French Louis Farrakhan... obsessed with Jews".[65]

2007–2009

Dieudonné wanted to finally represent politically these ever-radicalized positions in the 2007 presidential election, but for logistical reasons he could not maintain his candidacy, which was organized by Marc Robert (a.k.a. Marc George).[66] The convicted Holocaust denier Serge Thion wrote for his campaign web site under the pseudonym "Serge Noith", as did also the longtime secretary of the Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Maria Poumier. After the end of his candidacy, Dieudonné appeared several times publicly in the company of Jean-Marie Le Pen and traveled to Cameroon with Le Pen's wife Jany.[67] However, officially, Dieudonné called for the election of anti-globalization militant José Bové, despite Bové's asking Dieudonné not to do so.[68]

In July 2008, Jean-Marie Le Pen became godfather to Dieudonné's third child. Philippe Laguérie, a traditionalist Catholic priest, officiated at the baptism, which was held in the Saint-Éloi congregation in Bordeaux.[69]

On 26 December 2008, at an event at the Parc de la Villette in Paris, Dieudonné awarded the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson an "insolent outcast" prize [prix de l'infréquentabilité et de l'insolence]. The award was presented by one of Dieudonné's assistants, Jacky, dressed in a concentration camp uniform with a yellow badge. This caused a scandal[70] and earned him his sixth court conviction. On 29 January 2009, he celebrated the 80th birthday of Faurisson in his theater, in the midst of a representative gathering of Holocaust deniers, right-wing radicals, and radical Shiites.[71] Dieudonné and Faurisson further appeared together in a video making fun of the Holocaust and its commemoration.

On 21 March 2009, Dieudonné announced that he would run for the 2009 European Parliament election in the Île-de-France at the head of an "anti-communitarist and anti-Zionist" party. Other candidates on his party's electoral list were Alain Soral and the Holocaust denier and former member of Les Verts (the French Green Party) Ginette Skandrani (also known as Ginette Hess),[72] while Thierry Meyssan and Afrocentrist Kémi Seba, founder of the "Tribu Ka", are members of the party[73] but do not run. The campaign would be conducted again by Marc George.[74] In spite of the association of Dieudonné's party with the Shiite Centre Zahra,[75] whose president Yahia Gouasmi also runs on his list,[76] his candidacy was supported by Fernand Le Rachinel, a former high-ranking executive of the National Front and official printer of the party.[77] In early May 2009, the French government studied the possibility of banning the party,[78][79] but on 24 May, Justice minister Rachida Dati found there was no legal ground to do so.[80] The Parti antisioniste finally scored 1.30% of the votes.[81]

2010–2012

On 9 May 2012, police in Brussels, Belgium, stopped Dieudonné mid-performance after determining that his performance contravened local laws, and forced the cancellation of two more shows, but in November 2013, a Brussels justice found that the comedian was not using anti-Semitic slurs or inciting racial hatred during the show that was interrupted in May 2012.[82] On 21 June, Dieudonné complained against the Brussels police.[83] On 12 May 2012, event producer Evenko forced the cancellation of Dieudonné's shows in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on 14, 15, 16, and 17 May, citing "contractual conflicts".[84] In late May 2012, a screening of Dieudonné's directorial debut, L’Antisémite (The Anti-Semite), was canceled at the Marché du Film, the market held at the Cannes Film Festival.[10]

2013

Dieudonné released a song and dance called "Shoananas", performed to the tune of the 1985 children's video and song by Annie Cordy "Cho Ka Ka O" (Chaud Cacao or Hot Chocolate in English),[85] which itself by today's standards might be considered racist.[86] The term "Shoananas" is a portmanteau of Shoah, the French and Hebrew word used to refer to the Holocaust, and ananas, the French word for pineapple.[87]

In December, while performing onstage, Dieudonné was recorded saying about prominent French Jewish radio journalist Patrick Cohen: "Me, you see, when I hear Patrick Cohen speak, I think to myself: ‘Gas chambers... too bad."’"[88]

Radio France, Cohen’s employer, announced on 20 December that it had alerted authorities that Dieudonné had engaged in "openly anti-Semitic speech", and various French anti-racism watchdog groups filed complaints.[88]

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced he would try to legally ban public performances by Dieudonné. Valls stated that Dieudonne was "no longer a comedian" but was rather an "anti-Semite and racist" who had run afoul of France's laws against incitement to racial hatred.

"Despite a conviction for public defamation, hate speech and racial discrimination, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala no longer seems to recognize any limits," Valls wrote.

"Consequently, the interior minister has decided to thoroughly examine all legal options that would allow a ban on Dieudonné’s public gatherings, which no longer belong to the artistic domain, but rather amount to a public safety risk."[11]

2014

On 6 January, France's interior minister Manuel Valls said that performances considered anti-Semitic may be banned by local officials. In support of this, Valls sent a three-page memo to all prefects of police in France on 6 January entitled, "The Struggle Against Racism and Antisemitism—demonstrations and public reaction—performances by Mr. Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala". With respect to freedom of speech in France and banning scheduled performances ahead of time, Valls wrote: "The struggle against racism and antisemitism is an essential concern of government and demands vigorous action." He takes note of the liberty of expression in France, but goes on to say that in exceptional circumstances, the police are invested with the power to prohibit an event if its intent is to prevent "a grave disturbance of public order" and cites the 1933 law supporting this.[44]

Within hours, Bordeaux became the first French city to ban Dieudonné when mayor Alain Juppé canceled a local appearance planned as part of a scheduled national tour,[14] followed closely by Nantes,[89] Tours, Orléans, Toulouse, Limoges, and Biarritz. The show in Switzerland was to go on as scheduled.[15] On 10 January the Paris Prefect of Police prohibited Dieudonné from staging his next three upcoming shows at his Paris theatre.[16]

Some officials from both sides of the political spectrum have reservations about the legal validity of the Valls circular, and believe that cancellations could leave their cities liable for judgments of millions of euros in damages to Dieudonné if he sues and wins, as actually occurred in La Rochelle in 2012.[90]

According to a poll by IFOP for Metronews taken on 8–9 January 2014, 71% of the French population had a negative image of Dieudonné while 16% held a positive view. The voters of the National Front were the least negative, with 54% seeing him negatively and 32% positively.[91]

On 11 January 2014, he announced he would not perform his show Le Mur but would replace it with another one, Asus Zoa, that he wrote in three nights and that would talk about "dance and music inspired by ancestral myths".[92] In February, Dieudonné was banned from entry in the United Kingdom.[93]

In September, French authorities opened an investigation into Dieudonné on grounds that he condoned terrorism after mocking and showing footage of the killing of U.S. journalist James Foley. He described it as "access to civilisation", comparing it to many colonial crimes in Africa, which included killing and dismembering of victims and which were for decades justified by "civilizing Africa".[94]

2015

On 10 January 2015, following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Porte de Vincennes siege of a kosher supermarket, and the 1,500,000-strong "march against hatred" in Paris, Dieudonné wrote on Facebook "As far as I am concerned, I feel I am Charlie Coulibaly."[95] In this way he mixed the popular slogan "Je suis Charlie", used to support the journalists killed at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, with a reference to Amedy Coulibaly who was responsible for the hostage-taking at the kosher supermarket which included the killing of four Jews.[96]

Likening his treatment to that of "Public Enemy No. 1," on 11 January Dieudonné complained about it in an open letter to the Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve.[97]

On 13 January, Dieudonné was arrested in Paris, accused of publicly supporting terrorism,[98] based on his earlier Facebook comments where he appeared to support the kosher supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly.[99]

2016

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's report by Benjamin Shingler, dated 11 May 2016, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala was refused entry at the Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport by Canada Border Services Agency on the grounds of prior criminal convictions and forced to return home. He had been scheduled to perform ten shows in Montreal starting Wednesday night, 11 May 2016.

2020

In 2020, Dieudonné was banned from YouTube,[100] Facebook,[101] Instagram and TikTok.[102]

2022

One of his songs, a Nightcore version of Petit Poney, went viral on social media, released by 88century.

Court actions

  • On 14 June 2006, Dieudonné was sentenced to a penalty of €4,500 for defamation after having called a prominent Jewish television presenter a "secret donor of the child-murdering Israeli army".[103]
  • On 15 November 2007, an appellate court sentenced him to a €5,000 fine because he had characterized "the Jews" as "slave traders" after being attacked in le Théâtre de la Main d'Or.[104]
  • On 26 June 2008, he was sentenced in the highest judicial instance to a €7,000 fine for his characterization of Holocaust commemorations as "memorial pornography".[54]
  • On 27 February 2009, he was ordered to pay CAD$75,000 in Montreal to singer and actor Patrick Bruel for defamatory statements. He had called Bruel a "liar" and an "Israeli soldier".[105]
  • On 26 March 2009, Dieudonné was fined €1,000 and ordered to pay €2,000 in damages for having defamed Elisabeth Schemla, a Jewish journalist who ran the now-defunct Proche-Orient.info website. He declared on 31 May 2005 that the website wanted to "eradicate Dieudonné from the audiovisual landscape" and had said of him that "he's an anti-Semite, he's the son of Hitler, he will exterminate everyone".[106]
  • On 27 October 2009, he was sentenced to a fine of €10,000 for "public insult of people of Jewish faith or origin" related to his show with Robert Faurisson.[107] Dieudonné appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which rejected his case on 10 November 2015.[108]
  • On 8 June 2010, he was sentenced to a fine of €10,000 for defamation towards the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism, which he had called "a mafia-like association that organizes censorship".[109]
  • On 10 October 2012, he was fined €887,135 for tax evasion. According to the French revenue service, Dieudonné failed to pay part of his taxes from 1997 to 2009.[citation needed]
  • On 12 February 2014, he was ordered by a court to withdraw two clips from a video posted on YouTube on 31 December 2013 on the grounds of incitement to ethnic or racial hatred, and denial of crimes against humanity.[110]
  • On 25 November 2015, a court in Liège, Belgium, sentenced him to two months in jail and a €9,000 fine for "defamatory, antisemitic, negationist and revisionist" talk during a show in Herstal on 14 March 2012.[111]
  • On 14 April 2016, the Court of Appeal of Paris upheld a 19 March 2015 conviction of inciting racial hatred.[112]
  • In July 2021 he stood trial in Switzerland for Holocaust denial during shows in Geneva and Nyon in 2019. He denied the charges, but was found guilty and fined.[113]

Publications

  • Lettres d'insulte, illustrations by Tignous, Le Cherche-midi, 2002, (ISBN 2862747971)
  • Peut-on tout dire?, Interviews conducted by Philippe Gavi, Robert Ménard and Emmanuelle Ménard, in parallel with Bruno Gaccio, Editions Mordicus, 2010, (ISBN 978-2-918414-00-1)

Bibliography

Books

  • Anne-Sophie Mercier, La vérité sur Dieudonné, Plon, 2005; reissued in 2009 as Dieudonné démasqué, Seuil.
  • Olivier Mukuna, Dieudonné. Entretien à cœur ouvert, Éditions EPO, 2004

Articles

  • Jürg Altwegg, Die große Show der Auschwitz-Lügner als Duett eines Komikers mit dem Geschichtsfälscher Robert Faurisson, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 6 January 2009, p. 36
  • Agathe André, Mon réveillon chez les Faurissons. Charlie Hebdo n° 864, 7 January 2009, p. 2

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from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr Dieudonne see its history for attribution You should also add the template Translated fr Dieudonne to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation Dieudonne M bala M bala French pronunciation djodɔne ɛmbala ɛmbala born 11 February 1966 generally known by his stage name Dieudo is a French comedian actor and political activist He has been convicted for hate speech 1 advocating terrorism 2 and slander 3 in Belgium France and Switzerland Diewudo M bala M balaDieudonne in 2009Born 1966 02 11 11 February 1966 age 57 Fontenay aux Roses FranceNationalityFrenchOther namesDieudoOccupation s Comedian actor activistSpouseNoemie MontagneChildren5Websitewww wbr dieudosphere wbr comDieudonne initially achieved success working with comedian Elie Semoun humorously exploiting racial stereotypes He was a candidate in the 1997 and 2001 legislative elections in Dreux against the National Front 4 5 In 2003 Dieudonne performed a sketch on a TV show about an Israeli settler whom he depicted as a Nazi Some critics argued that he had crossed the limits of antisemitism and several organizations sued him for incitement to racial hatred Dieudonne refused to apologize and denounced Zionism 6 In 2007 Dieudonne approached Jean Marie Le Pen leader of the National Front political party that he had fought earlier and the men became political allies and friends 7 Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson appeared in one of his shows in 2008 8 9 Dieudonne described Holocaust remembrance as memorial pornography 10 Dieudonne has been convicted in court eight times on antisemitism charges 11 Dieudonne subsequently found himself regularly banned from mainstream media and many of his shows were cancelled by local authorities 8 12 13 14 15 16 Active on the internet and in his Paris theater Dieudonne has continued to have a following 17 His quenelle signature gesture became notorious in 2013 particularly after footballer Nicolas Anelka used the gesture during a match in December 2013 In 2013 after Dieudonne was recorded during a performance mocking a Jewish journalist suggesting it was a pity that he was not sent to the gas chambers 18 Interior Minister Manuel Valls stated that Dieudonne was no longer a comedian but was rather an anti Semite and racist and that he would seek to ban all Dieudonne s public gatherings as a public safety risk 19 His shows have been banned in several French cities On 20 January 2017 the court of appeal of Liege confirmed a first instance sentence of two months of jail time and a 9 000 fine for Dieudonne s anti Semitic remarks in a performance in Herstal on 14 March 2012 20 Dieudonne has also been known to associate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President of Iran from 2005 to 2013 who has himself been accused of describing the Holocaust as a myth 21 On 25 February 2015 Ahmadinejad tweeted Visiting an old friend a great artist 22 The tweet included photographs of himself and Dieudonne arms around each other smiling The two also met in 2009 during a visit by Dieudonne to Iran where they reportedly discussed their shared anti Zionist views 23 Contents 1 Personal life 2 Performing career 3 Theatre de la Main d Or 4 Political activities and views 4 1 The quenelle gesture 4 2 Beginnings 4 3 2002 2006 4 4 2007 2009 4 5 2010 2012 4 6 2013 4 7 2014 4 8 2015 4 9 2016 4 10 2020 4 11 2022 5 Court actions 6 Publications 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External linksPersonal life EditDieudonne M bala M bala was born in Fontenay aux Roses Hauts de Seine France He is the son of a retired sociologist from Brittany who is also a painter and exhibits under the name Josiane Grue and an accountant from Ekoudendi Cameroon 10 24 His parents divorced when he was one year old and he was brought up by his mother He attended Catholic school though his mother was a New Age Buddhist 25 Dieudonne lives with Noemie Montagne his producer 26 and has five children with her 27 Performing career EditDieudonne began writing and practicing routines with his childhood friend Jewish comedian and actor Elie Semoun They formed a comedic duo Elie et Dieudonne Elie and Dieudonne and performed in local cafes and bars while Dieudonne worked as a salesman selling cars telephones and photocopy machines In 1992 a Paris comedian spotted them and helped them stage their first professional show 25 In the 1990s they appeared on stage and on television together as Elie et Dieudonne In 1997 they split and each went on to a solo theater career In 1998 they reunited in a screen comedy Le Clone 28 which was a failure critically and financially From the mid 1990s Dieudonne appeared in several French film comedies primarily in supporting roles His most successful screen appearance to date was in Alain Chabat s box office hit Asterix amp Obelix Mission Cleopatra in 2002 in 2004 he appeared in Maurice Barthelemy s box office bomb Casablanca Driver Dieudonne s successful one man shows include Pardon Judas 2000 Le divorce de Patrick 2003 and 1905 2005 Other one man shows were Mes Excuses 2004 Depot de bilan 2006 and J ai fait l con 2008 all understood as attacks on political and social opponents and defences of his own positions Anti Semitic statements made within and around these productions led to intense controversy and numerous lawsuits 29 Following the 2005 civil unrest in France Dieudonne also penned a play called Emeutes en banlieue Riots in the Suburbs February 2006 In 2009 surrounded by scandals see below Political activities Dieudonne launched two one man shows Liberte d expression Freedom of expression and Sandrine While the latter was a follow up to Le divorce de Patrick the former was conceived as a series of itinerant conferences on free speech 30 Started on 18 June 2010 in his theater Dieudonne s most recent show to date Mahmoud standing for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has an openly antisemitic tone 31 caricaturing Jews slavery and official versions of history 32 Dieudonne s production company first acted under the name Bonnie Productions and now under the name Les productions de la Plume In 2012 Dieudonne made his directorial debut in a film called L Antisemite The Anti Semite 33 in which he starred as a violent and alcoholic character who dresses as a Nazi officer at a party and also features the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson as well as imagery that mocks Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners 34 The movie which was produced by the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center is also known by the title Yahod Setiz Its scheduled screening at the Cannes Film Festival s Marche du Film the parallel film market event was canceled 35 The film is to be commercialized on the internet and sold to subscribers of Dieudonne s activities 36 Theatre de la Main d Or EditDieudonne is the lease holder of the Theatre de la Main d Or in the 11th arrondissement of Paris which is used for both stand up comedy and political events by himself and friends Political activities and views EditThe quenelle gesture Edit Main article Quenelle gesture The quenelle invented by Dieudonne is a gesture consisting of a downward straight arm touched at the shoulder by the opposite hand In French quenelle normally refers to a type of dumpling Images of the quenelle were widely shared in 2013 with many individuals posing while performing the quenelle in photos posted to the internet 37 Dieudonne claims that the gesture is an anti establishment protest Officially French authorities have said the gesture is too vague to take any action against Dieudonne 38 In December 2013 the French Minister for Sport Valerie Fourneyron publicly criticised the footballer Nicolas Anelka for using the gesture as a goal celebration in an English Premier League match 39 French international and NBA basketball player Tony Parker also came under fire during the same time period for his use of the gesture 40 On 30 December 2013 Parker apologized for making the gesture saying that the photograph had been taken three years earlier and that he had been unaware at the time that it had any anti Semitic connotation 41 On 31 December 2013 Dieudonne released a 15 minute video proposing that 2014 will be the year of the quenelle 42 In it Dieudonne attacks bankers and slavers so as not to say Jews 43 and end up in a lawsuit and calls upon his followers quenelleurs those who listen and follow him towards a hatred of Jews 43 Antisemite I m not of that opinion he says in the video I m not saying I d never be one I leave myself open to that possibility but for the moment no Later he added I don t have to choose between the Jews and the Nazis 42 43 An official January 2014 circular issued by Interior Minister Manuel Valls besides laying out a legal justification for banning antisemitic performances by Dieudonne also specifically linked the quenelle gesture to anti Semitism and extremism 44 Beginnings Edit Dieudonne was initially active on the anti racist left In the 1997 French legislative election he worked with his party Les Utopistes in Dreux against National Front candidate Marie France Stirbois and received 8 percent of the vote 45 Verbally and in demonstrations he also supported migrants without a residence permit the so called sans papiers and the Palestinians 2002 2006 Edit Dieudonne in 2006 Since 2002 Dieudonne has attracted attention by making increasingly polemical statements In an interview for the magazine Lyon Capitale in January 2002 he described the Jews as a sect a fraud which is the worst of all because it was the first and said he preferred the charisma of bin Laden to that of Bush 46 He subsequently tried to run for president in the 2002 presidential election but failed to get in the race On 1 December 2003 he appeared live on a television show disguised as a parody of an Israeli settler wearing military fatigues and a Haredi Orthodox Jewish hat The sketch climaxed with a Hitler salute after which Dieudonne shouts out a word According to Dieudonne he shouted Israel in the persona of the Haredi In the following days some news agencies stated that he shouted Isra Heil or Heil Israel 47 48 He was cleared of charges of antisemitism in a Paris court after the judge said this was not an attack against Jews in general but against a type of person distinguished by their political views 49 At the 2004 European Parliament election Dieudonne was a candidate for the extreme left wing party Euro Palestine but left a few months after the election because of disagreements with its leaders 50 Dieudonne is the director of the Les Ogres website where he makes plain his denial of the historical version of the 9 11 events Following this television appearance a Dieudonne show in Lyon at La Bourse du Travail on 5 February 2004 was picketed and a bottle containing a corrosive product was thrown in the venue injuring a spectator 51 52 On 11 November Dieudonne organized a debate with four rabbis of Naturei Karta in the Theatre de la Main d Or in Paris 53 On 16 February 2005 he declared during a press conference in Algiers that the Central Council of French Jews CRIF Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France was a mafia that had total control over French policy exercise called the commemoration of the Holocaust memorial pornography 10 pornographie memorielle and claimed that the Zionists of the Centre national de la cinematographie which control French cinema prevented him from making a film about the slave trade 54 55 Dieudonne was also trying to appear as a spokesman for French blacks but after some initial sympathy from the novelist Calixthe Beyala the journalists Antoine Garnier and Claudy Siar as well as the founding members of the Conseil representatif des associations noires CRAN he increasingly met with their rejection 56 Throughout 2005 and 2006 Dieudonne was often in the company of senior National Front members Bruno Gollnisch 57 Frederic Chatillon 58 and Marc George also known as Marc Robert the man who went on to conduct his electoral campaigns in 2007 and 2009 59 Dieudonne also frequently appeared together with the conspiracy theorist Thierry Meyssan and the former Marxist and current right wing radical Alain Soral a confidant of Marine and Jean Marie Le Pen 60 Under the influence of Soral s writings and polemics Dieudonne was acquainted with his militant antisemitism of French nationalist inspiration 61 In May 2006 he gave a lengthy interview to the far right monthly Le Choc du mois 62 Demonstrating shoulder to shoulder with Islamists he also traveled at the end of August 2006 with Chatillon Meyssan and Soral in Lebanon to meet MPs and fighters of the Hezbollah 58 Some Jews reacted angrily to his comments on this tour In April 2005 Dieudonne went to Auschwitz 63 In May 2006 he was involved in a fight with two teenage Jews in Paris one of whom he sprayed with tear gas Dieudonne claimed that the teenagers attacked him first both parties pressed charges 64 but the lawsuits were not pursued In France and abroad Dieudonne became increasingly perceived as an extremist of a type until then uncommon in Europe in the introduction to a March 2006 interview The Sunday Independent of South Africa called him a French Louis Farrakhan obsessed with Jews 65 2007 2009 Edit Dieudonne wanted to finally represent politically these ever radicalized positions in the 2007 presidential election but for logistical reasons he could not maintain his candidacy which was organized by Marc Robert a k a Marc George 66 The convicted Holocaust denier Serge Thion wrote for his campaign web site under the pseudonym Serge Noith as did also the longtime secretary of the Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy Maria Poumier After the end of his candidacy Dieudonne appeared several times publicly in the company of Jean Marie Le Pen and traveled to Cameroon with Le Pen s wife Jany 67 However officially Dieudonne called for the election of anti globalization militant Jose Bove despite Bove s asking Dieudonne not to do so 68 In July 2008 Jean Marie Le Pen became godfather to Dieudonne s third child Philippe Laguerie a traditionalist Catholic priest officiated at the baptism which was held in the Saint Eloi congregation in Bordeaux 69 On 26 December 2008 at an event at the Parc de la Villette in Paris Dieudonne awarded the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson an insolent outcast prize prix de l infrequentabilite et de l insolence The award was presented by one of Dieudonne s assistants Jacky dressed in a concentration camp uniform with a yellow badge This caused a scandal 70 and earned him his sixth court conviction On 29 January 2009 he celebrated the 80th birthday of Faurisson in his theater in the midst of a representative gathering of Holocaust deniers right wing radicals and radical Shiites 71 Dieudonne and Faurisson further appeared together in a video making fun of the Holocaust and its commemoration On 21 March 2009 Dieudonne announced that he would run for the 2009 European Parliament election in the Ile de France at the head of an anti communitarist and anti Zionist party Other candidates on his party s electoral list were Alain Soral and the Holocaust denier and former member of Les Verts the French Green Party Ginette Skandrani also known as Ginette Hess 72 while Thierry Meyssan and Afrocentrist Kemi Seba founder of the Tribu Ka are members of the party 73 but do not run The campaign would be conducted again by Marc George 74 In spite of the association of Dieudonne s party with the Shiite Centre Zahra 75 whose president Yahia Gouasmi also runs on his list 76 his candidacy was supported by Fernand Le Rachinel a former high ranking executive of the National Front and official printer of the party 77 In early May 2009 the French government studied the possibility of banning the party 78 79 but on 24 May Justice minister Rachida Dati found there was no legal ground to do so 80 The Parti antisioniste finally scored 1 30 of the votes 81 2010 2012 Edit On 9 May 2012 police in Brussels Belgium stopped Dieudonne mid performance after determining that his performance contravened local laws and forced the cancellation of two more shows but in November 2013 a Brussels justice found that the comedian was not using anti Semitic slurs or inciting racial hatred during the show that was interrupted in May 2012 82 On 21 June Dieudonne complained against the Brussels police 83 On 12 May 2012 event producer Evenko forced the cancellation of Dieudonne s shows in Montreal Quebec Canada on 14 15 16 and 17 May citing contractual conflicts 84 In late May 2012 a screening of Dieudonne s directorial debut L Antisemite The Anti Semite was canceled at the Marche du Film the market held at the Cannes Film Festival 10 2013 Edit Dieudonne released a song and dance called Shoananas performed to the tune of the 1985 children s video and song by Annie Cordy Cho Ka Ka O Chaud Cacao or Hot Chocolate in English 85 which itself by today s standards might be considered racist 86 The term Shoananas is a portmanteau of Shoah the French and Hebrew word used to refer to the Holocaust and ananas the French word for pineapple 87 In December while performing onstage Dieudonne was recorded saying about prominent French Jewish radio journalist Patrick Cohen Me you see when I hear Patrick Cohen speak I think to myself Gas chambers too bad 88 Radio France Cohen s employer announced on 20 December that it had alerted authorities that Dieudonne had engaged in openly anti Semitic speech and various French anti racism watchdog groups filed complaints 88 French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced he would try to legally ban public performances by Dieudonne Valls stated that Dieudonne was no longer a comedian but was rather an anti Semite and racist who had run afoul of France s laws against incitement to racial hatred Despite a conviction for public defamation hate speech and racial discrimination Dieudonne M Bala M Bala no longer seems to recognize any limits Valls wrote Consequently the interior minister has decided to thoroughly examine all legal options that would allow a ban on Dieudonne s public gatherings which no longer belong to the artistic domain but rather amount to a public safety risk 11 2014 Edit On 6 January France s interior minister Manuel Valls said that performances considered anti Semitic may be banned by local officials In support of this Valls sent a three page memo to all prefects of police in France on 6 January entitled The Struggle Against Racism and Antisemitism demonstrations and public reaction performances by Mr Dieudonne M Bala M Bala With respect to freedom of speech in France and banning scheduled performances ahead of time Valls wrote The struggle against racism and antisemitism is an essential concern of government and demands vigorous action He takes note of the liberty of expression in France but goes on to say that in exceptional circumstances the police are invested with the power to prohibit an event if its intent is to prevent a grave disturbance of public order and cites the 1933 law supporting this 44 Within hours Bordeaux became the first French city to ban Dieudonne when mayor Alain Juppe canceled a local appearance planned as part of a scheduled national tour 14 followed closely by Nantes 89 Tours Orleans Toulouse Limoges and Biarritz The show in Switzerland was to go on as scheduled 15 On 10 January the Paris Prefect of Police prohibited Dieudonne from staging his next three upcoming shows at his Paris theatre 16 Some officials from both sides of the political spectrum have reservations about the legal validity of the Valls circular and believe that cancellations could leave their cities liable for judgments of millions of euros in damages to Dieudonne if he sues and wins as actually occurred in La Rochelle in 2012 90 According to a poll by IFOP for Metronews taken on 8 9 January 2014 71 of the French population had a negative image of Dieudonne while 16 held a positive view The voters of the National Front were the least negative with 54 seeing him negatively and 32 positively 91 On 11 January 2014 he announced he would not perform his show Le Mur but would replace it with another one Asus Zoa that he wrote in three nights and that would talk about dance and music inspired by ancestral myths 92 In February Dieudonne was banned from entry in the United Kingdom 93 In September French authorities opened an investigation into Dieudonne on grounds that he condoned terrorism after mocking and showing footage of the killing of U S journalist James Foley He described it as access to civilisation comparing it to many colonial crimes in Africa which included killing and dismembering of victims and which were for decades justified by civilizing Africa 94 2015 Edit On 10 January 2015 following the Charlie Hebdo shooting the Porte de Vincennes siege of a kosher supermarket and the 1 500 000 strong march against hatred in Paris Dieudonne wrote on Facebook As far as I am concerned I feel I am Charlie Coulibaly 95 In this way he mixed the popular slogan Je suis Charlie used to support the journalists killed at the Charlie Hebdo magazine with a reference to Amedy Coulibaly who was responsible for the hostage taking at the kosher supermarket which included the killing of four Jews 96 Likening his treatment to that of Public Enemy No 1 on 11 January Dieudonne complained about it in an open letter to the Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve 97 On 13 January Dieudonne was arrested in Paris accused of publicly supporting terrorism 98 based on his earlier Facebook comments where he appeared to support the kosher supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly 99 2016 Edit According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation s report by Benjamin Shingler dated 11 May 2016 Dieudonne M bala M bala was refused entry at the Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport by Canada Border Services Agency on the grounds of prior criminal convictions and forced to return home He had been scheduled to perform ten shows in Montreal starting Wednesday night 11 May 2016 2020 Edit In 2020 Dieudonne was banned from YouTube 100 Facebook 101 Instagram and TikTok 102 2022 Edit One of his songs a Nightcore version of Petit Poney went viral on social media released by 88century Court actions EditOn 14 June 2006 Dieudonne was sentenced to a penalty of 4 500 for defamation after having called a prominent Jewish television presenter a secret donor of the child murdering Israeli army 103 On 15 November 2007 an appellate court sentenced him to a 5 000 fine because he had characterized the Jews as slave traders after being attacked in le Theatre de la Main d Or 104 On 26 June 2008 he was sentenced in the highest judicial instance to a 7 000 fine for his characterization of Holocaust commemorations as memorial pornography 54 On 27 February 2009 he was ordered to pay CAD 75 000 in Montreal to singer and actor Patrick Bruel for defamatory statements He had called Bruel a liar and an Israeli soldier 105 On 26 March 2009 Dieudonne was fined 1 000 and ordered to pay 2 000 in damages for having defamed Elisabeth Schemla a Jewish journalist who ran the now defunct Proche Orient info website He declared on 31 May 2005 that the website wanted to eradicate Dieudonne from the audiovisual landscape and had said of him that he s an anti Semite he s the son of Hitler he will exterminate everyone 106 On 27 October 2009 he was sentenced to a fine of 10 000 for public insult of people of Jewish faith or origin related to his show with Robert Faurisson 107 Dieudonne appealed to the European Court of Human Rights which rejected his case on 10 November 2015 108 On 8 June 2010 he was sentenced to a fine of 10 000 for defamation towards the International League against Racism and Anti Semitism which he had called a mafia like association that organizes censorship 109 On 10 October 2012 he was fined 887 135 for tax evasion According to the French revenue service Dieudonne failed to pay part of his taxes from 1997 to 2009 citation needed On 12 February 2014 he was ordered by a court to withdraw two clips from a video posted on YouTube on 31 December 2013 on the grounds of incitement to ethnic or racial hatred and denial of crimes against humanity 110 On 25 November 2015 a court in Liege Belgium sentenced him to two months in jail and a 9 000 fine for defamatory antisemitic negationist and revisionist talk during a show in Herstal on 14 March 2012 111 On 14 April 2016 the Court of Appeal of Paris upheld a 19 March 2015 conviction of inciting racial hatred 112 In July 2021 he stood trial in Switzerland for Holocaust denial during shows in Geneva and Nyon in 2019 He denied the charges but was found guilty and fined 113 Publications EditLettres d insulte illustrations by Tignous Le Cherche midi 2002 ISBN 2862747971 Peut on tout dire Interviews conducted by Philippe Gavi Robert Menard and Emmanuelle Menard in parallel with Bruno Gaccio Editions Mordicus 2010 ISBN 978 2 918414 00 1 Bibliography EditBooks Anne Sophie Mercier La verite sur Dieudonne Plon 2005 reissued in 2009 as Dieudonne demasque Seuil Olivier Mukuna Dieudonne Entretien a cœur ouvert Editions EPO 2004Articles Jurg Altwegg Die grosse Show der Auschwitz Lugner als Duett eines Komikers mit dem Geschichtsfalscher Robert Faurisson Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 6 January 2009 p 36 Agathe Andre Mon reveillon chez les Faurissons Charlie Hebdo n 864 7 January 2009 p 2References Edit Dieudonne fait appel de sa condamnation en Belgique pour antisemitisme Figaro Tv 26 November 2015 Je suis Charlie Coulibaly Dieudonne condamne Le Figaro 18 March 2015 Mussolini moitie trisomique Dieudonne condamne en appel pour sa description de Manuel Valls Egalite amp Reconciliation fr Lichfield John 30 December 2013 Who is Dieudonne How the French comedian was thrust into the spotlight by Nicolas Anelka s quenelle goal celebration The Independent Legislatives Dieudonne candidat a Dreux LExpress fr 18 May 2012 Fogiel consterne par Dieudonne leparisien fr 2 December 2003 Valerie Zoydo Le Pen a 20minutes fr Je suis le parrain de la troisieme fille de Dieudonne devant Dieu et devant les hommes I am the godfather of the third daughter of Dieudonne in front of God and in front of mankind 20minutes fr 16 July 2008 a b Dieudonne La Rochelle doit lui verser 40 000 euros Le Figaro 5 September 2012 Societe Actualite et info sur France Bleu ici par France Bleu et France 3 Archived from the original on 6 January 2014 a b c d Maia de la Baume 22 June 2012 A French Jester Who Trades in Hate The New York Times a b French footballer Anelka under fire over anti Semitic gesture France 24 29 December 2013 Dieudonne interdit de spectacle a Montreal LExpress fr 11 May 2012 Metronews fr Archived 7 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine a b Dieudonne M Bala M Bala s shows can be banned due to perceived anti Semitism French official says Fox News Associated Press 6 January 2014 Retrieved 6 January 2014 a b leparisien fr 2014 INFOGRAPHIE Les spectacles de Dieudonne interdits les uns apres les autres Le Parisien Retrieved 8 January 2014 The effects of the anti Dieudonne circular didn t take long to become apparent While the Parisian theater where his show Le Mur has been produced since 1999 is in the process of dropping him several towns where the show was scheduled to appear are prohibiting the performance one after the other a b Frederic Potet 2014 Le prefet de police interdit les spectacles de Dieudonne dans son fief de la Main d Or a Paris Le Monde fr Le Monde Retrieved 10 January 2014 Hugh Schofield 31 December 2013 Dieudonne The bizarre journey of a controversial comic BBC Retrieved 7 January 2014 Bouquet Vincent 20 December 2013 Dieudonne regrette les chambres a gaz Radio France attaque nouvelobs com Le Nouvel Observateur Archived from the original on 3 July 2014 Retrieved 14 January 2015 Tu vois lui si le vent tourne je ne suis pas sur qu il ait le temps de faire ses valises Moi tu vois quand je l entends parler Patrick Cohen je me dis tu vois les chambres a gaz Dommage You know that guy if the wind starts blowing from the other direction I m not sure he ll have the time to pack his bags and leave You know when I hear him talking Patrick Cohen I think you know gas chambers Too bad France24 28 December 2013 Liege Dieudonne condamne a deux mois de prison et a 9 000 euros d amende Liege Dieudonne sentenced to two months in prison and a 9 000 euro fine in French 20 January 2017 BBC NEWS Middle East Holocaust comments spark outrage bbc co uk 14 December 2005 DrAhmadinejad 25 February 2015 Visiting an old friend a great artist Dieudonne all4Palestine Tweet via Twitter Ahmadinejad Meets Dieudonne In Other News News Arutz Sheva Arutz Sheva Scott Sayare Concern Over an Increasingly Seen Gesture Grows in France The New York Times 2 January 2014 a b Tom Reiss 19 November 2007 Letter from Paris Laugh Riots The French star who became a demagogue The New Yorker Interdit de casino Dieudonne sera quand meme la lundi accompagne d un huissier Actualite Dunkerque Nord La Voix du Nord Lavoixdunord fr 18 March 2009 Archived from the original on 21 March 2009 Retrieved 10 May 2009 Dieudonne Biography IMDb com 11 February 1966 Retrieved 12 June 2009 Le clone 1998 IMDb com Retrieved 10 May 2009 Dieudonne rappel des principaux faits entourant la polemique Observatoire du communautarisme 26 February 2005 Dieudonne donne une conference dans un car Le Nouvel Observateur 18 March 2009 Dieudonne de retour dans un spectacle qui s en prend ouvertement aux juifs Agence France Presse 18 June 2010 Dieudonne la croisade du bouffon Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Lesoir be 10 August 2010 Vladislav Davidzon 26 June 2012 L Antisemite Banned at Cannes A new French film is worth watching if only for its portrayal of aesthetic corruption propelled by bigotry Tablet Magazine Richard Brody 11 April 2012 Dieudonne s I Rant The New Yorker Dave Itzkoff 25 May 2012 Screening of Comedy The Anti Semite Is Canceled at Cannes The New York Times Retrieved 2 July 2012 AFP 25 May 2012 Cannes le film de Dieudonne annule Le Figaro in French France May Ban Black Comedian for Hate Speech VOA French use Nazi like salute with impunity The Times of Israel Nicolas Anelka West Brom striker defends goal celebration BBC Sport Abramson Mitch 29 December 2013 Spurs guard Tony Parker under fire for quenelle gesture alleged anti Semitism New York Daily News Retrieved 30 December 2013 Tony Parker of San Antonio Spurs sorry for controversial photo ESPN com 30 December 2013 a b 2014 sera l annee de la quenelle on YouTube a b c Guillaume Champeau 2014 La quenelle sur Internet argument de Valls pour interdire Dieudonne Numerama Archived from the original on 8 January 2014 Retrieved 7 January 2014 Attaquant ici les banquiers la les esclavagistes pour ne pas dire ouvertement les Juifs et eviter un proces Dieudonne entraine ceux qui l ecoutent et le suivent vers une haine pour les Juifs dans une video dans laquelle il demande sans transition que 2014 devienne l annee de la quenelle a b Eric Hacquemand 2014 Voici la circulaire anti Dieudonne envoyee par Valls aux prefets Le Parisien Retrieved 7 January 2014 He poses personally on the tour poster performing the gesture known as the quenelle a gesture for which his production company has registered intellectual property rights at the National Industrial Property Institute INPI and that references his Internet publications without ever having renounced the racist and antisemitic declarations in his publications And in the exchanges that he has with a portion of the public his followers or numerous people known for their antisemitic and extreme ideas he has declared in a message published on 1 January 2014 on the Internet site Youtube that he declares 2014 to be the year of the quenelle He has clearly proclaimed his wish to persist along the same path despite nine judgments against him Dieudonne Bouffon de cour Archived 17 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine voir ca reissued on Vigile net 14 June 2007 Dieudonne juge raciste en cassation L Express 25 October 2007 La ou la blague blesse Archived 23 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine liberation 20 February 2004 Dieudonne la promo par le pire Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine 24 heures 7 January 2009 French comic not anti Semitic BBC 27 May 2004 Retrieved 7 May 2009 Dieudonne sur une pente tres glissante Archived 16 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Euro Palestine 29 October 2004 Incident spectacle Dieudonne INA clip Dieudonne chahute a Lyon Liberation 4 February 2004 Retrieved 5 February 2011 Dieudonne n est pas antisemite il aime les Juifs integristes prochoix org 24 November 2004 a b Dieudonne star de la semaine judiciaire Le Figaro 26 June 2008 A Alger l humoriste qualifie la commemoration de la Shoah de pornographie memorielle Archived 6 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine aidh org February 2005 Stephen Smith Geraldine Faes Noir et Francais Editions du Panama April 2006 ISBN 2 7557 0106 4 Bernhard Schmid Reise nach Beirut Trend online 2005 Dieudonne et ses fans du FN Archived 13 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine amnistia info 21 December 2006 a b Chatillon Le GUD des autres Bakchich info 13 November 2006 Dieudonne cote obscur Archived 22 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine Liberation 2 January 2009 Dieudonne le comique tripier Archived 22 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine Alain Soral Le sous Marine du Front National Archived 14 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine Amnistia net 28 February 2005 amp 4 December 2006 Laugh Riots The New Yorker 19 November 2007 Cover of Le Choc du mois May 2006 issue prominently featuring Dieudonne Archived from the original on 16 June 2006 Retrieved 18 May 2006 Dieudonne le premier antisemite a aller a Auschwitz video Dailymotion Dailymotion 17 May 2009 Collectifdom com is for sale HugeDomains Archived from the original on 6 March 2005 John Lichfield French comic s growing anti Semitism is no joke The Sunday Independent 26 March 2006 Un coup de tonnerre Dieudonne se retire de la campagne presidentielle Bakchich info 11 October 2006 Dieudonne guide de Mme Le Pen au Cameroun grioo com 16 March 2007 Dieudonne soutient Bove qui le recuse L Express 16 January 2007 Le Pen confirme etre parrain d un enfant de Dieudonne Le Nouvel Observateur 16 July 2008 Retrieved 7 January 2014 in French Dieudonne Faurisson le parquet de Paris ouvre une enquete preliminaire Le Nouvel Observateur 31 December 2008 Les etranges amities de Dieudonne dead link Le Monde 24 February 2009 reproduced on http france israel hautetfort com Archived 30 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine Dieudonne candidat antisioniste aux europeennes Le Monde 23 March 2009 Dieudonne candidat aux elections europeennes Le Figaro 22 March 2009 L analyse du politologue microbien Dans la poubelle de mon bureau NationsPresse Archived from the original on 3 September 2012 Retrieved 9 July 2009 Les amis tres particuliers du centre Zahra L Express 27 February 2009 Un Juif avec barbe et chapeau sur l affiche de Dieudonne Rue89 2 June 2009 Le creancier du FN s amuse avec la liste de Dieudonne Le Monde 26 May 2009 Les listes antisionistes de Dieudonne menacees d interdiction A la Une Reuters Fr reuters com 9 February 2009 Archived from the original on 7 May 2009 Retrieved 10 May 2009 France seeks poll bar for comic by Emma Jane Kirby BBC News 5 May 2009 Dati on n a pas trouve d elements pouvant empecher Dieudonne de se presenter aux europeennes permanent dead link Le Nouvel Observateur 24 May 2009 La liste anti sioniste de Dieudonne obtient 1 30 en Ile de France Agence France Presse 8 June 2009 M L 6 November 2013 Les charges pour antisemitisme abandonnees contre Dieudonne dhnet be Dieudonne porte plainte contre la police de Bruxelles Archived from the original on 24 June 2012 Retrieved 22 June 2012 B nai Brith Applauds Evenko Cancellation of Dieudonne M bala M bala Archived 15 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine Montreal Gazette 12 May 2012 Cassely Jean Laurent 27 June 2013 La dieudonnisation des esprits une grosse quenelle qui vient d en bas Slate fr Yossi Lempkowicz French public radio takes legal action against latest anti Semitic remarks by comedian Dieudonne ejpress org In France quasi Nazi salute may evade long arm of the law Jewish Telegraphic Agency 23 December 2013 a b France may ban French comic s show for anti Semitism France 24 27 December 2013 Elaine Ganley 2014 Ruling blocks show by controversial French comic Associated Press Archived from the original on 11 January 2014 Retrieved 10 January 2014 A French comic who is considered anti Semitic was banned from performing Thursday night Jan 9 2014 just hours after a court in Nantes said he could go ahead with his show leparisien fr 2014 Dieudonne des doutes sur la validite de la circulaire Valls Le Parisien Retrieved 9 January 2014 Dieudonne 71 des Francais ont une mauvaise opinion du polemiste Ouest France Retrieved 10 January 2014 in French Dieudonne abandonne definitivement son spectacle Le Mur L Express 11 January 2014 French comedian Dieudonne responds to British ban with quenelle to Queen The Daily Telegraph London 3 February 2014 French comedian investigated for comments on James Foley killing Reuters 5 September 2014 As far as I am concerned I feel I am Charlie Coulibaly independent co uk 12 January 2015 Retrieved 14 January 2015 Comedian arrested for comment on Charlie Hebdo attacks EUROPE hurriyetdailynews com Vise par une enquete pour apologie du terrorisme Dieudonne repond au parquet Targeted by an Investigation for Justification of Terrorism Dieudonne Responds to the Prosecutor s Office latribune fr in French 12 January 2015 ISSN 1760 4869 Retrieved 13 May 2017 Depuis un an je suis traite comme l ennemi public numero 1 alors que je ne cherche qu a faire rire et a faire rire de la mort puisque la mort elle se rit bien de nous comme Charlie le sait helas For a year I ve been treated like Public Enemy No 1 when all I ever wanted to do was make people laugh and laugh at death because Death is sure laughing at us as Charlie knows only too well alas Holly Yan Salma Abdelaziz 14 January 2015 Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack CNN Retrieved 14 January 2015 Paris attacks Dieudonne held as France tackles hate speech BBC News 14 January 2015 YouTube removes 25 000 pages for hate speech The Times of Israel 2 July 2020 Retrieved 20 December 2020 Facebook permanently bans French comedian Dieudonne for anti Semitism The Times of Israel 3 August 2020 Retrieved 20 December 2020 French anti Semitic comedian banned from TikTok The Times of Israel 12 August 2020 Retrieved 20 December 2020 Dieudonne renonce a faire appel de sa condamnation pour diffamation envers Arthur La Depeche du Midi 19 September 2007 Dieudonne condamne pour propos antisemites Le Figaro undated Dieudonne condamne au Quebec a payer 75 000 dollars a Patrick Bruel Agence France Presse 28 February 2009 Dieudonne condamne pour diffamation Le Parisien 26 March 2009 Amende de 10 000 pour Dieudonne Le Figaro 27 October 2009 Albertini Dominique 10 November 2015 Pour la justice europeenne une prise de position antisemite de Dieudonne n est pas du spectacle Liberation Retrieved 10 November 2015 Dieudonne condamne pour diffamation envers la Licra Le Parisien 8 June 2010 La justice ordonne a Dieudonne de retirer deux passages d une video sur Internet L Express 12 February 2014 Retrieved 12 February 2014 Wauters Laurence Dieudonne condamne a 2 mois de prison ferme par la Belgique pour antisemitisme Le Soir Retrieved 25 November 2015 La condamnation de Dieudonne pour ses propos antisemites contre Patrick Cohen confirmee Agence France Presse in French 14 April 2016 Retrieved 3 May 2016 Swiss court sentences French comedian for anti semitic sketch External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dieudonne M bala M bala Official Dieudonne website Archived 20 September 2012 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