2023-08-17 20:17:20
Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala at the Théâtre de la Main d’Or, in Paris, January 11, 2014. REUTERS / GONZALO FUENTES
The town hall of Lyon has signed an order prohibiting a show by comedian Dieudonné scheduled for Saturday in the city, announced the community and the Rhône prefecture in a press release published Thursday, August 17. This decision, taken “in order to guarantee respect for public order”, was taken the day following a similar decree from the mayor of Toulouse. Representations of this same show, entitled “Sous bracelet”, have already been banned in other cities, including Montpellier and Paris.
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The Lyon representation had been announced for Saturday August 19 on the Dieudonné website. The exact location was to be communicated to people who purchased a ticket, a few hours before its start, the statement said.
The City of Lyon recalls that Dieudonné was the subject of “numerous criminal convictions for having made Holocaust denial speeches, inciting racial hatred or advocating terrorism”.
“Faced with the risk of public order disturbances, the prefect of the Rhône fully supports the decision of the mayor of Lyon to ban the Dieudonné show”, it is specified. She “invites the mayors of the other municipalities of the department to take the same measures if the place of the representation were to change”.
Several performances planned
Tuesday evening in a press release, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) Auvergne Rhône-Alpes had expressed its “deep concern regarding upcoming performances” in Lyon de Dieudonné, one scheduled for this Saturday, the other for December, and had called the mayor of the city to “act responsibly”.
Several performances are scheduled in August, according to the Dieudonné site, for example in Grenoble and Auxerre.
Since 2002, Dieudonné has been the subject of numerous legal proceedings. In particular, he was sentenced in September 2020 to a fine of 10,000 euros for racist remarks made in June 2017 during his show “Bal des quenelles”.
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