He had been warned, the ax fell and will be published in the next few hours. Scheduled Thursday, September 14 at the Zénith, Dieudonné will not be able to perform on the Parisian stage. The prefect of police Laurent Nuñez has decided to ban the show of the controversial comedian. At the beginning of August, the prefect had warned the artist of this possibility of prohibition due in particular to “risks of serious disturbances to public order”, which he reiterated in the decree motivating his decision.
In this letter, Laurent Nuñez evoked “attacks on human dignity” in the content of the show, entitled The Fool’s Cage. Several letters were then exchanged between the police headquarters and the polemicist’s lawyer, in particular on the communication of the script for the show.
Dieudonné stigmatized the “Jewish lobby” in August
In his banning order, the prefect of police noted that it was “public knowledge that the content of previous shows” by Dieudonné “apologized the discrimination, persecution and extermination perpetrated during the Second World War. world”. He also considered that the “elements put forward by the lawyer” of the controversial comedian were “not likely to prevent the making of remarks that violate human dignity during the show and do not contribute (have ) thus no sufficient guarantees on the absence of disturbances to public order”.
Laurent Nuñez also points out that in an article by Rivarol (a far-right press organ) of August 29, Dieudonné had stigmatized “the Jewish lobby” by claiming to want to “combat this hateful and racist lobby”. In addition, the prefect of police notes that this show was to take place the day before the celebration by the Jewish community of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, which celebrates the new year in the Hebrew calendar, and “near a synagogue”.
Dieudonné, comedian convicted of racial slurs and incitement to hatred, and Francis Lalanne, an antivax singer, have already tried to play The Fool’s Cage at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris on April 7. Without success.