Paris (AFP)
The Facebook group announced Monday that it had banned French polemicist Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala permanently from Facebook and Instagram for "content mocking the victims of the Holocaust" and "dehumanizing terms
"In accordance with our policy on dangerous individuals and organizations, we have permanently banned Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala from Facebook and Instagram. Banning a person permanently from our services is a decision that we always weigh. with attention, but individuals and organizations who attack others on the basis of who they are have no place on Facebook or Instagram, ”said a spokesperson for the digital giant.
This is not the first ban for Mr. M'Bala M'Bala since the polemicist saw his YouTube channel deleted at the end of June by Google, the parent company of the streaming site, which believed that this deletion followed "repeated violations of our YouTube community policy."
Dieudonné was followed by nearly 1.3 million accounts on Facebook platforms and 400,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.
In a press release, the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) sees it as "a great victory and the culmination of long-term work, carried out by our team and our lawyers, which has finally paid off" .
"His publications have committed considerable and irreparable damage among the youth and they have participated for years in trivializing the obsession of the Jews and giving a second youth to the denial of Robert Faurisson. It was time for the disorder to end and we are here. particularly proud to have actively participated in extinguishing this torrent of hatred, ”added the organization.
Facebook had already banned extreme right-wing personalities, such as Alain Soral or Hervé Ryssen, from its social networks, as well as organizations such as Génération Identitaire.
Accustomed to the courts, Dieudonné has been condemned several times by the courts for his hate speech. In November, he was 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".
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