Geneva (AFP)
The controversial comedian Dieudonné was convened by the Geneva courts for a "hearing" in January, following complaints filed by an anti-Semitism association which accuses him of having made denial statements during shows in Switzerland, we learned Monday.
The Geneva prosecutor's office told AFP "to have summoned Dieudonné M'bala M'bala as a defendant for a hearing on 17 January".
According to the schedule of the humorist, it should happen that day in Bergerac (south-west of France).
This hearing follows the various complaints lodged this year by the Swiss Inter-Community Coordination against Anti-Semitism and Defamation (Cicad).
"These are the first complaints lodged in Switzerland against Dieudonné," Cicad secretary general Johanne Gurfinkiel told AFP.
The association accuses Dieudonné of having held "Holocaust denouncements on the gas chambers" during his shows in Nyon in January and in Geneva in June.
In addition, a complaint for "public insult" against the Cicad, denouncing remarks made during the show.
Accustomed to the courts, the polemist 53 years was sentenced several times in France for his anti-Semitic outings. On November 27, he was sentenced to a fine of 9,000 euros, which could be converted into imprisonment in the event of non-payment, for complicity in anti-Semitic insults, after the publication of a video and song titled "C 'is my choaaa'.
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