The show was set in a room directly managed by municipality. The services branch defends himself from all lightness.
The city of Marseille has to know, Wednesday, 13 September, that she was not going to accommodate Dome, a municipal hall, new show of Dieudonne, entitled The War, originally scheduled for Sunday, November 19. The announcement of coming of polemicist, several times condemned, including for incitement to racial hatred and glorification of terrorism, in larger entertainment venues in marseille, it had caused since a few days is an early controversy in second city of France.
Tuesday, September 12, day after decision of mayor ecologist of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, to ban show in his city, representative Council of jewish institutions of France (CRIF) has asked mayor of Marseille Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR), to ” prohibit rental or provision of equipment managed by city to a person who has been convicted for racist and/or antisemitic “. The president of socialist group in municipal council, Benedict Payan, recommended, him, ” to undo this programming is unacceptable “, declaring mselves ” deeply shocked to see city of Marseille, invite a person who preaches hate.”
Under this pressure is relayed by local newspapers, Jean-Claude Gaudin has decided to return to hire of hall originally granted. “A multicultural city like Marseille could not accept a show that, on pretext of humour that divides, divide and oppose,” Mr. Gaudin, in a press release, saying also that show of Dieudonné is ” likely to disturb public order “.
a Clause in contract to cancel
Up to this realization late, municipal services did not seem to have found nothing wrong with return of Dieudonne Me Bala Me Bala in Marseille. In February 2014, polemicist had already been welcomed in a equipment city, Elevator, room administered by delegation of public service by a private company.
The Dome, which can accommodate up to 8,000 people, to him, is directly managed by municipality, through directorate-general of attractiveness and promotion of city to which it is attached. “No spectacle or political meeting is scheduled for Dome without mayor’s cabinet will be informed,” says a connoisseur of booking system at premises.
service branch, one defends himself from all lightness in management of case of Dieudonné, to evoke ” a desire to make least amount of advertising character “. “In 2014, re has been no controversy,” recalls deputy director general Jean-Pierre Chanal. “Legally,” he continues, ” we cannot refuse to rent a room at his production company, but we had a clause in contract allowing us to cancel booking if it causes a public order problem. “
Still on agenda culture of Internet website of city
The War, which poster shows a Dieudonné bloody on bottom of automatic weapons, has been treated as a show classic. On Wednesday 13 September, despite cancellation, announcement, classified in category of humor, was always in agenda, culture of Internet website of city of Marseille, accompanied by a text presenting a trivial matter. Only link directly to website of polemicist – Dieudosphère – had been removed.
” We all know that Dieudonné is going to use this argument in order to pose as victim and say that his word is censored, concludes objector socialist Benedict Payan, but it simply was not conceivable to see it in a equipment city, which is financed by public funds. “
