Dieudonné, May 20, 2017. -

PATRICK GELY / SIPA

The Chartres court sentenced the controversial comedian Dieudonné to a fine of 10,000 euros on Thursday for making racist remarks in June 2017 as part of his show the “ball of the quenelles”.

The term, used by Dieudonné during a show performed at his home in Eure-et-Loir, on June 17, 2017, “Krakow pajamas gag”, in reference to the outfit worn by the Jewish deportees in Auschwitz during the Second World War, is "offensive to Jewish victims of the Holocaust," said the court, which followed the requisitions of the prosecution.

Dieudonné's lawyer will appeal

The court also ordered the polemicist to pay 8,000 euros to each of the two associations which had become civil parties, the association of the National Office for Vigilance Against Antisemitism and the Ben-Gurion association.

Present at the start of the hearing, on June 22, the polemicist had left the courthouse an hour after his arrival, claiming that he had to "record a daily show".

Dieudonné had declared "insulting, even obscene, to come and disturb a court to talk about sketches" before adding that "the character should have been called".

His lawyer, Me Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, for his part considered the procedure "untimely", judging that the show was not taking place in a public but private place.

She had also disputed the incriminated comments.

She said Thursday that she was going to appeal this conviction.

Dieudonné banned from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

In recent months, the polemicist has been banned from several online platforms: at the end of June YouTube deleted Dieudonné's channel, then in August the Facebook group banned him permanently from Facebook and Instagram, followed a few days later by TikTok.

A spokesperson for the Facebook group explained that the controversial comedian was banned from his two platforms "permanently" because he "repeatedly violated our rules on hate speech, by posting content that mocks victims of the Shoah or by using dehumanizing terms against the Jews ”.

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