The polemicist was sentenced on appeal on Thursday to “100 day-fine of 100 euros” for antisemitic videos published in May 2020. He had first been sentenced to four months in prison in May 2021.
He had been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment at first instance, in May 2021. The Paris Court of Appeal finally sentenced the polemicist Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala on appeal to “100 day-fine of 100 euros” for “antisemitic insult”, “incitement to hatred” and “dispute of crime against humanity”, Thursday April 21.
These convictions are linked to two antisemitic videos published in May 2020. At first instance, in May 2021, the polemicist had denied the authenticity of the videos, claiming to be the victim of a “deepfake”, a digital trick technique which allows to superimpose one face to another.
The Paris Court of Appeal, on the other hand, confirmed a fine of 10,000 euros and 3,000 euros in damages against the polemicist for “public insult towards a civil servant”. Dieudonné was banned in the summer of 2020 from major online platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, in the name of fighting hate content. The comedian with a criminal record filled for a decade with his antisemitic outings, was also sentenced on appeal in May 2021 to three years’ imprisonment, two of which are closed, and a fine of 200,000 euros for tax fraud, money laundering, abuse of corporate assets or fraudulent organization of its insolvency.
