The Paris police chief wrote to Dieudonné on Tuesday to explain that he judges “serious” the risk “that the holding of this show leads to serious disturbances to public order“. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Laurent Nuñez believes that the text of the show, sent to the prefecture in June, includes “outrages upon human dignity”.
Laurent Nuñez, the prefect of police of Paris, warned the controversial humorist Dieudonné, that he was considering banning his show scheduled for September 14 at the Zénith de Paris. In this letter dated Tuesday, addressed to Dieudonné and of which AFP has read, Laurent Nuñez, in agreement with the Minister of the Interior, evokes “outrages upon human dignity”. In June, Dieudonné sent the prefect the text of this show which he is presenting with the antivax singer Francis Lalanne.
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The prefect of police also believes that there is a “serious risk that the holding of this show will lead to serious disturbances of public order with people hostile to (the) performanceand clashes between supporters and opponents. He also points out that the show is planned during the Rugby World Cup, at a time when the police will be heavily mobilized. Laurent Nuñez informs the comedian that he has the possibility “until August 31, 6 p.m.“to present”his commentsbefore the final prefectural decision.
The Zénith operator has no leeway to authorize or prohibit the presentation of a show
Daniel Colling, President of the Zenith
Dieudonné, polemicist convicted several times for racial insults and incitement to hatred, and Francis Lalanne have already tried to play The Fool’s Cage at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris on April 7. The show had not taken place because “the commercial offer presented to the Cirque d’Hiver, which was that of farewell concerts by Francis Lalanne, did not correspond to the reality of what was really planned“, had argued the lawyer of the Bouglione family, owner of the room, in The Parisian.
At the end of April, the Zenith of Paris had announced its “vigilance“, in particular in terms of respect for “public order“, in the event of the reception of this show in September, recalling that a ban returned”only to the competent authorities“. “It is necessary to keep in mind that the Zenith operator has no leeway to authorize or prohibit the presentation of a show“, had specified in a press release its president Daniel Colling.
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