It all started with a song, published in June 2017 on the streaming platforms YouTube, Deezer, Spotify and Apple Music: "My head is hot in front of the barbecue. If the merguez is kosher, I might have a noose around my neck " can we hear in this song entitled "This is my choaaa ". In November 2019, for the publication of this title, the court sentenced Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala to a fine of 9,000 euros, while the prosecution requested ten months in prison. The court then ruled that the lyrics of his song referred "undoubtedly, by way of insinuation, to the drama of the Shoah which is derided" and the "right to humor"invoked by polemicist"comes up against another right, that of human dignity". According to our colleagues fromAFP, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on February 18, 2021 the conviction of Elie Semoun's ex-accomplice to a fine of 9,000 euros, which can turn into imprisonment in the event of non-payment, for complicity in insult anti-Semitic after the video and song were published.
Yet another condemnation
The 55-year-old polemicist has always denied being the singer and author of this song. The song was allegedly written by an inmate during a "schoolboy song workshop"… in prison. The judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal, however, to the controversial comedian to pay several thousand euros in damages or legal costs to seven anti-racist associations as civil parties. summer 2020, he was banned from multiple online platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, in the name of the fight against hate content.
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