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This decision of the Lausanne court, made public this Friday, April 14, comes on top of many other convictions, confirming that anti-Semitism is the business of an individual trying to hide behind an actor’s role.
New condemnation for Dieudonné. Once once more for “racial discrimination”, specifically anti-Semitic. The federal court of Lausanne, in Switzerland, made public this Friday April 14 its decision confirming the condemnation of the actor by an order issued on March 16. Dieudonne “cannot rely on freedom of expression for comments made […] during shows […]according to which the gas chambers would never have existed”, believes the Swiss authority. Which also confirms the conviction for insulting the Intercommunity Coordination once morest Anti-Semitism and Defamation (Cicad), as well as for defamation once morest the secretary general of the latter, Johanne Gurfinkiel.
“Roughly minimizing the Holocaust”
It was during performances of one of his shows, in Nyon and Geneva in 2019, that Dieudonné made the incriminating remarks. He played a passenger seated on board a plane regarding to crash and who uttered “disrespectful remarks”, emphasizes the Federal Court of Lausanne. And in particular this sentence, launched as a confession: “Fuck everyone, the gas chambers never existed.” An exit condemned by the Geneva police court in 2021 with a 180-day fine. A judgment which was confirmed in 2022, following a first appeal, by the Court of Justice of the Republic and the Canton of Geneva. At the same time, Dieudonné had been sentenced for “defamation” once morest the secretary
