They had clashed during the last legislative elections in Essonne.
But also in 2014 during the ban, confirmed by the Council of State, of the show of the "comedian".
The soap opera Manuel Valls against Dieudonné will know a new stage.
This Friday, the former Prime Minister announced that he had attacked Dieudonné M'bala M'bala for defamation after the broadcast of a video on YouTube last October in which the controversial comedian accuses the former Prime Minister of sexual assault .
The Nanterre public prosecutor's office has issued an introductory indictment for public defamation of an individual by word, writing, image or means of communication to the public by electronic means, he indicated.
If the filing of a complaint with the constitution of civil party meets the legal criteria, a judge will therefore be referred.
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In the offending video, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala "accuses Valls of sexually assaulting a student when he was a history teacher" and claims that he was taken into custody for these facts, explained the council of Prime Minister Me Thibault de Montbrial.
Already convicted several times for defamation
However, “no luck: already, Valls has never been a history teacher.
Everything is false, ”denounced the lawyer.
During a hearing on March 15 before the Criminal Court of Versailles, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, tried in another defamatory video case, had launched: "It is not me on the video".
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The comedian had argued to have been the victim of digital rigging, "the deepfake", during this trial in which he appeared for contempt of a magistrate.
The deepfake is a sophisticated technique consisting, among other things, of superimposing one face on another.
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Dieudonné had already been convicted of defamation, notably in 2010 for the benefit of the Licra and in 2012. He was fined 10,000 and 20,000 euros respectively.
In 2017, he was sentenced to two months in prison by Belgian justice.
The French polemicist Dieudonné had been fined 9,000 euros for inciting hatred and making anti-Semitic remarks.