Comic fined for anti-Jew comments
French star's history of outrage
A French comic has been fined almost £5,000 after he accused Jews of ‘memorial pornography’ for their remembrance of the Holocaust.Outspoken black comedian Dieudonne was fined €7,000 over the remarks he made at a press conference in Algeria in February 2005.
In the same conference he attacked ‘the Zionist lobby’ which he said ‘has declared war on the black world’.
A Paris court today found him guilty of ‘complicity to slander a group of persons on the grounds of race, religion or origin’.
Last year Dieudonne was fined €5,000 for comparing Jews to slave-traders, but he is appealing against the sentence. In a separate case, he was fined €4,500 for libel, having accused a Jewish TV host of ‘actively financing the Israeli army’.
In 2003 he appeared on TV dressed as a Jew, then gave the Nazi salute as he shouted: ‘Isra-Heil’, which again landed him in court, but this time he was judged not to have broken the law.
Published: 11 Sep 2007
