Dieudonné files an appeal with the administrative court

Controversial humorist Dieudonné filed an appeal with the Paris administrative court on Thursday against the prohibition by the prefect of police of his show at the Zenith on September 14, said his lawyer, confirming information from Liberation.

Already refused in several cities, the show was banned on Wednesday because of “risks of serious disturbances to public order” in view of its repeated anti-Semitic remarks. This Parisian ban is in addition to those taken during the summer in Lyon, Grenoble, Montpellier or Toulouse, where the comedian multi-convicted for racial insults and incitement to hatred was to present his new show The Fool’s Cage, with antivax singer Francis Lalanne. His lawyer, Me Emmanuel Ludot, said he had filed two interim releases against this ban on Thursday, one concerning Dieudonné and the other Francis Lalanne.

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“Above all, I criticize the lack of characterization of the disturbance to public order and the disproportionate“said the lawyer. “The bans that have rained on without ceasing actually amount to setting up a generalized and perpetual ban against Dieudonné. It’s not the texts anymore, now it’s the man“, he said. He spoke of avery atypical situation“, explaining to have”submittedthis summer the text of the show to the prefect of police, proposed to amend it, to bring a “commissioner of justice” then “to postpone the date” a spectacle. Concerning Francis Lalanne, “the decree does not provide for any prohibition“, it is therefore “unenforceable“, maintains the lawyer.

A ban envisaged in early August

At the beginning of August, the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez had warned Dieudonné of cthis possibility of prohibition in particular because of “risks of serious disturbances to public order”, which he reiterated in the decree motivating his decision. Several exchanges took place between the police headquarters and the lawyer for the polemicist. In his prohibition order, Laurent Nuñez noted that he was “common knowledge that the tenor of previous shows“de Dieudonne”defended the discrimination, persecution and extermination perpetrated during the Second World War“. He further considered that theelements put forward by the lawyer“of the humorist were”not of such a nature as to prevent the making of remarks undermining human dignity during the show and thus did not provide sufficient guarantees on the absence of disturbances to public order“.

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The chief of police also noted that this show was to take place the day before the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah and “near a synagogue“.