{"id":89442,"date":"2014-01-29T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=89442"},"modified":"2014-02-02T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T09:36:12","slug":"france-intensifies-crackdown-on-controversial-comic-dieudonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=89442","title":{"rendered":"France intensifies crackdown on controversial comic Dieudonne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EXPACTICA.com <\/span>— Jan 28, 2014<\/h1>\n

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Dieudonne with the quenelle gesture. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

France’s crackdown on Dieudonne M’bala M’Bala intensified on Tuesday with police raiding offices and properties of the controversial comic and a Paris theatre at which he regularly performs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The raids were carried out as part of an investigation into suspected fraud by a performer who has been widely accused of promoting anti-Semitism and has a string of convictions for hate speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authorities are currently attempting to force Dieudonne to pay tens of thousands of euros (dollars) in outstanding fines related to his convictions and suspect that the 47-year-old was planning to fraudulently declare himself bankrupt.<\/span><\/p>\n

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They are also investigating suspected money laundering and misuse of corporate assets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dieudonne hit the headlines last month when the government, which has branded him a “pedlar of hate”, succeeded in preventing him from starting a nationwide tour of a new show, “The Wall”, because of its perceived anti-Semitic content.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He has also generated controversy by popularising the quenelle, a trademark stiff-armed gesture that critics say is a disguised Nazi salute but he defends as a generic ‘up yours’ to the French establishment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former France footballer Nicolas Anelka, a long-standing friend of Dieudonne, is currently facing disciplinary proceedings by the English Football Association for making the quenelle gesture after scoring for his club West Brom last month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anelka, a convert to Islam, insists there were no anti-Semitic overtures to his use of the gesture — a stance echoed by many in France.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some followers of Dieudonne have however been photographed doing the quenelle at sites including Auschwitz, synagogues and outside a Jewish school in Toulouse where a rabbi and three children were shot dead by Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Police said Wednesday they had arrested a man suspected of distributing a picture of someone doing the quenelle outside the Toulouse school.<\/span><\/p>\n

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