A French court fined a comedian for suggesting that Jews were slavers. Dieudonne M’bala M’bala faced controversy because of a sketch in which he donned Orthodox Jewish clothing and gave a Nazi salute and was fined more than 5,000 Euros for a 2004 interview in which he said, “Those who attack me founded their fortunes on the trade in blacks and slavery.”
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