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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 02:32 PM Mar 2015

Dieudonne guilty of condoning terrorism with Charlie Hebdo comment

Source: BBC

18 March 2015 Last updated at 15:40 GMT

Dieudonne guilty of condoning terrorism with Charlie Hebdo comment

The controversial French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala has been found guilty of condoning terrorism.

He had posted on Facebook "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly" just days after the Paris attacks in January.

The post combined the "Je Suis Charlie" slogan with the name of one of the three gunmen involved in the attacks, which included a mass shooting at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

Dieudonne was given a two-month suspended sentence by the Paris court.

Dieudonne posted the comment on Facebook - in French "Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly" - following a huge march in Paris to condemn the attacks, in which 17 people were killed.

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Dieudonne guilty of condoning terrorism with Charlie Hebdo comment (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2015 OP
so much for that commitment to free speech Man from Pickens Mar 2015 #1
 

Man from Pickens

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1. so much for that commitment to free speech
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 03:25 PM
Mar 2015

sends the message that violence is a perfectly acceptable means of squelching speech one doesn't like

the hypocrisy will be lost on very few

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