He will finally be able to perform well there. The Strasbourg administrative court on Saturday suspended in summary proceedings the ban on a Dieudonné show planned for this Sunday in Bas-Rhin, considering that it posed a “serious attack” on freedom of expression.
The show had been banned by prefectural decree, the prefecture highlighting “the criminal convictions” of Dieudonné “sanctioning remarks of an anti-Semitic nature made on several occasions”, but also on the “renewal of tensions and the resurgence of acts of an anti-Semitic nature in France since the terrorist acts committed on October 7, 2023 in Israel by members of Hamas.”
“A serious attack on freedom of expression”
Seized for interim relief, the court considered that it could not establish that other performances of the show would have led to "physical or material disturbances to public order", nor that the measure would be "necessary and proportionate to prevent possible disturbances to public order ".
The court concluded that the ban posed “a serious and manifestly illegal attack on freedom of expression” and therefore suspended the prefectural decision.
A similar decision was made by administrative justice in November in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne).