French comedian Dieudonne sentenced to jail in Belgium for anti-Semitic comments

Dieudonne M’bala M’bala YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT
Dieudonne M’bala M’bala YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT

French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala was sentenced by a Belgian court to two months in jail for racist and anti-Semitic comments that he made during a show there.

Dieudonne was also fined approximately US$9,500 by the court in the eastern city of Liege, the French news agency AFP reported, for discriminatory, anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying remarks made during a 2012 show.

He did not appear in court.

Dieudonne was ordered to pay for the entire text of the judgment against him to be printed in two leading French-language Belgian newspapers, Reuters reported.

He has been convicted seven times in France for inciting racial hatred against Jews.

The comedian is the promoter of the quenelle quasi-Nazi salute and the term shoananas — a mash-up of the Hebrew word for Holocaust and the French one for pineapple — which he uses to suggest the Holocaust never happened without openly violating French laws forbidding such denials.