The police chief banned Dieudonné’s new show in the capital. This Monday, the Paris administrative court rejected for “lack of urgency” the appeal filed in summary proceedings by the controversial comedian. “The condition of particular urgency to which the intervention of the summary judge is subject […] is not met” in this case, ruled the administrative judge, according to a press release from the court.
“The Zénith company had terminated the contract linking it to the production company of the show and had consequently prohibited it from accessing the room,” added the judge, adding “that it did not belong to the administrative jurisdiction” to know the reason for the dispute “related to this termination”. “Consequently and without ruling on the condition relating to the serious and manifestly illegal infringement of a fundamental freedom which would have been brought by the administration, the judge in chambers rejected the two requests”, specified the press release from the court.
The risk of “serious disturbances to public order”
Dieudonné and anti-vax singer Francis Lalanne were due to perform on September 14 at the Zénith in Paris for their new show The Fool’s Cage. The capital’s police chief decided Wednesday to ban the show, in particular for “serious risks […] serious disturbances to public order”.
Laurent Nuñez had specified that it was “common knowledge that the content of the previous shows” of Dieudonné “apologized the discriminations, persecutions and exterminations perpetrated during the Second World War”. Francis Lalanne and Dieudonné had in response filed two separate appeals with the Paris administrative court. The two artists can now challenge this decision before the Council of State.