PostedAugust 16, 2022, 12:40 PM
FranceDieudonné plays his show on a motorway service area
The comedian was chased by two town halls while he was setting up his truck for his one-man show.
Dieudonné was chased away by two towns in France when he wanted to perform his show there.
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Dieudonné was refused to play in two towns in Loire-Atlantique (F) last weekend, a situation which led him to finally give his show from a motorway rest area, as reported by “Ouest-France “.
The artist now performs on board his bus where the public is invited to sit down to follow the show. People are notified of the location of the performance only shortly before it. The meeting is given last Sunday evening near a sports hall in Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire. Shortly following, an assistant to the town hall and several gendarmes go to the scene and force the polemicist to leave the place for lack of authorization. “No one sought confrontation,” the authorities told the French newspaper.
“You need prior authorization which he did not have”
Direction Carquefou, regarding 7 km away. But little more success with the municipality. Véronique Dubettier-Grenier, the mayor, asked him to leave. Between twenty and thirty people had already moved to attend the show. “When I arrived, they were starting to get into the truck,” she explains to the regional media. “He was in the public space, and for this event, as for any other, you need prior authorization which of course he did not have,” she continues.
It is finally on the Launay area, along the A11 motorway, Dieudonné played his show. As recalled by “Ouest-France”, the comedian has been convicted several times for insults or incitement to hatred.
