A new ban for him. The show by the controversial comedian Dieudonné scheduled for April 7 in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), was banned by the department's prefecture, she said this Friday. “By prefectural decree of April 5, 2024, the prefect of Bas-Rhin decided to prohibit the holding of the show by Mr. Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala
“Under bracelet: an extraordinary show”,
scheduled for April 7, 2024 in Bas-Rhin,” writes the prefecture on X (formerly Twitter).
In its decree, the Bas-Rhin prefecture notably considered that “the risk of comments and gestures of an anti-Semitic nature” was “all the higher since said representation would take place in a local context marked by the multiplication of anti-Semitic acts in the Bas-Rhin”. Likewise, she recalled that Dieudonné had “been the subject of several criminal convictions, some of which are final, for comments of an anti-Semitic nature, which incite racial hatred and disregard the dignity of the human person”.
#Information | By prefectural decree of April 5, 2024, the @Prefet67 decided to prohibit the holding of the show by Mr. Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala "Under bracelet: an extraordinary show", scheduled for April 7, 2024 in the #BasRhin .
👉 https://t.co/ZBk2F2JxGk pic.twitter.com/IPhZkmVHxU
— Prefect of the Grand Est & Bas-Rhin region 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@Prefet67) April 5, 2024
The exact location where the show was planned is not specified either on the Dieudonné website where tickets are on sale or by the prefecture. It is generally communicated shortly before the performance to ticket holders only. According to the prefecture, this also posed a problem of “prevention of disturbances to public order”. An appeal is always possible before the courts. On March 28, the Loire-Atlantique prefecture, for example, decided to ban a show scheduled for March 29 in the department. This ban was suspended the next day by the Nantes administrative court.
Many shows already banned
This is not the first time that Dieudonné has been banned from performing in Strasbourg. Last November, the city's EELV mayor Jeanne Barseghian issued a municipal decree to ban her show scheduled for December 3, 2023.
📌#Strasbourg. #Dieudonné: the mayor of Strasbourg @JeanneBarsegh issues a municipal decree to ban the Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala show scheduled for December 3. All the details ⬇️https://t.co/Etz9x9JKoz
— Strasbourg.eu (@strasbourg) November 22, 2023
More recently, in March 2024, it was the Haut-Rhin prefecture which banned this same show. Here again, the precise location of the show had been kept secret and was to be revealed “only a few hours before the start” only “to people who had purchased a ticket”. A show by the comedian had already been banned in this same department in October 2023 due to Dieudonné's convictions for “negationist speeches” and the context linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In September, a Dieudonné show planned at the Zénith in Paris, entitled “La Cage aux fous”, was banned by the police prefect due to “risk of serious disturbances to public order” in view of his repeated anti-Semitic remarks. . This Parisian ban was added to those taken during the summer in Lyon, Grenoble, Montpellier or Toulouse, where Dieudonné was to present this show with the anti-vax singer Francis Lalanne.
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The 58-year-old controversial comedian has already been convicted on multiple occasions, notably for racial insults and inciting hatred. He was also sentenced on March 5 to a fine of 3,000 euros by the Nanterre criminal court (Hauts-de-Seine) for having defamed former Prime Minister Manuel Valls by accusing him of sexual assault. In addition to the fine, the comedian was ordered to pay the sum of 3,000 euros in damages to Manuel Valls and 2,000 euros for procedural costs.
In a video broadcast on October 22, 2020, now unavailable online, Dieudonné declared that he was “aware” of a complaint filed by a “young girl” against Manuel Valls, presented as an “attacker of good women” at a time when the latter would have been a professor of history and geography. He claimed that the former Prime Minister of François Hollande had been in police custody and insulted him. Manuel Valls filed a complaint with civil party status on November 3, 2020.