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The Guardian
February 4, 2014
The controversial French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has been banned from entering Britain after several of his shows were cancelled in France.
Dieudonné had said he would travel to the UK to support his friend, footballer Nicolas Anelka, who is facing a disciplinary hearing after performing a “quenelle” – an allegedly antisemitic gesture – during a Premier League match.
The Home Office has declared the performer persona non grata and warned he will not be allowed into the country. It has alerted airlines, other transport companies and border officials that the performer, whose stage name is Dieudonné, is an “excluded” individual. A spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Mr Dieudonné is subject to an exclusion order. The home “Several of Dieudonné’s shows were banned in France last month at the start of a 22-date tour, amid fears that his stereotypical portrait of Jews and mocking of the Holocaust were a risk to public order.
Dieudonné fans and civil liberties campaigners accused the French government of attacking free speech and of censorship. The comedian rewrote his shows dropping the most offensive material.
Anelka, a striker with West Bromwich Albion, has been charged by the Football Association after performing a quenelle when he scored a goal against West Ham on 28 December. The 34-year-old player said he was expressing his support for his friend Dieudonné, who claims to have invented the gesture, described by some as an inverted Nazi salute.
Dieudonné, who has convictions for inciting racial hatred through his in antisemitic jokes and comments, insists the gesture is simply anti-establishment. However, he has failed to distance himself from groups and individuals who have posted photographs of themselves doing the quenelle outside synagogues, Holocaust memorials, Jewish schools and even at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
Anelka has insisted that he is “neither antisemitic or racist”. The FA hearing is not expected before the end of February.
The document outlining the ban on Dieudonné was leaked to the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. It states that the 47-year-old comic “should not be carried to the UK”.
