Paris - On September 22, the public prosecutor required a one
year imprisonment sentence on probation plus a 10.000 Euro penalty for racial defamation, for the French comedian, actor and political activist Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, generally known simply as Dieudonné
(photo). The court will sentence on 27 October. Previous
court convictions:
* On June 14, 2006 Dieudonné was sentenced to a penalty of 4,500 Euro for defamation after having called a prominent Jewish television presenter a
secret donor of the child-murdering Israeli army.
* On November 15, 2007, an appellate court convicted him to a 5,000 Euro fine because he had treated
the Jews as slave traders.
* On 26 June 2008, he was sentenced in the last judicial instance to a 7,000 Euro fine for his designation of the 'holocaust' as
memorial pornography.
* On 27 February 2009 he was fined 75,000 Canadian dollars in Montreal for defamatory statements with antisemtic undertones against the singer and actor Patrick Bruel.
* On 26 March 2009 Dieudonné was sentenced to a total of 3,000 Euros for defamation after having criticised Elisabeth Schemla, a Jewish journalist.
