The polemist Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala's YouTube channel, which had around 400,000 subscribers, has disappeared from the platform in recent hours. This deletion "falls within the framework of the classic moderation processes of YouTube" and "follows repeated breaches of our YouTube community regulations," explained Google France. Dieudonné was condemned several times for his anti-Semitic statements.
"Excellent news" for Dilcrah
The parent company of the online video platform also recalls that Youtube "tightened its regulations on hate speech in June last year", and has just deleted several chains of white supremacists in the States -United.
The disappearance of the Dieudonné channel "is excellent news", reacted to AFP Frédéric Potier, the interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred (Dilcrah). "This closure follows very numerous reports made by Dilcrah, both to the public prosecutor and to the platforms themselves."
The Union of Jewish Students of France welcomes the decision
The decision was also welcomed by the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), which has reported "dozens of videos" of the polemicist to YouTube in recent months. "This closure follows the action of the UEJF and its anti-racist partners who have been fighting for years, day by day, the spread of racist, anti-Semitic and negationist ideas of the pseudo humorist", welcomed the organization on Facebook.
"The hundreds of thousands of Dieudonné subscribers are orphaned by their preacher of hate, and that's good," said the president of the UEJF, Noémie Madar, in welcoming a decision that "marks a major advance in the fight against hate on the internet ". For her, "the other internet players no longer have any excuse, Twitter and Facebook should also take responsibility." Networks on which Dieudonné has 150,000 and 1.2 million subscribers respectively.
The polemicist reacted on Facebook by denouncing "Israeli pressures". The removal of his channel recalls, according to him, "the fireworks of the darkest hours in history". A regular in the courts, Dieudonné has been condemned several times by the justice system for his hateful remarks. His last conviction was in November. He was then fined 9,000 euros for complicity in an anti-Semitic insult after the publication of a video and a song entitled "C'est mon choaaa".