Le Figaro Nice
Christian Estrosi still does not want Dieudonné in his city. On his website, the controversial comedian announces the holding of his show, "Foutu pour foutu", Saturday night (20h), in Nice. As usual, it does not announce the precise location, which is indicated shortly before the start of the show by SMS to people with an online ticket. Of the four rates offered on its website, the first category is already sold out. Unsurprisingly, the mayor of Nice was quick to react to oppose the arrival of Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala.
Between the two men, there is a similar precedent. In 2017, the first magistrate had strongly opposed the holding of his show, on July 14, a year after the attack on the Promenade des Anglais, especially since the comedian intended to invest the theater of Verdure, nearby. Christian Estrosi had appealed to the government of the time to ban this representation considered provocative. It finally occurred in a neighboring commune, in L'Escarène. Without failing, in a video on social networks a few days later, to insult Christian Estrosi. The latter then filed a complaint and prevailed in 2021. Dieudonné was fined 10,000 euros.
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As I have always done, I will take all necessary measures and precautions to prevent Dieudonné, already convicted for anti-Semitic remarks, from performing in Nice.
Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice
If Dieudonné finally hopes to be able to present his last show in Nice, the mayor still makes him a persona non grata in his city. "As I have always done, I will take all necessary measures and precautions to prevent Dieudonné, already convicted for anti-Semitic remarks, from performing in Nice," he wrote on his Twitter account late Wednesday afternoon. These kinds of speeches and characters have and never will have a place in our city."
In a second message on the social network, the mayor calls on the prefect of Alpes-Maritimes, Bernard Gonzalez: "I also call on the prefecture to take all measures that will prevent Dieudonné from performing in Nice, continues Christian Estrosi. He and his hatred are definitely not welcome!" The French polemicist was sentenced to two months in prison during his appeal trial in Belgium for incitement to hatred and anti-Semitic remarks. In June 2021, he also received a three-year prison sentence, including two farms, as well as a fine of 200,000 euros in a case of tax fraud, money laundering and abuse of social assets, related to the income from his shows.
Before landing on the Côte d'Azur, the man who evoked "a quenelle Nice", six years ago, must deliver on stages in Orleans (Thursday), then Valencia (Friday). On his website, he evokes "a show under very high pressure, already cult before its hatching". In Nice, Christian Estrosi does not want to let the slightest verb of the polemicist hatch. Last week, Dieudonné was heard to defend Islamologist Tariq Ramadan in his rape trial in Geneva, of which he was acquitted on Wednesday.