The French comedian and anti-Semite Dieudonné declared in the end of March that he will run for European Parliament in the upcoming elections. Dieudonné, son of a French sociologist and a Cameroonian book keeper, can look back on a long history of political engagement: He run for President in France two times (in 2002 and 2007) and also in European politics dimensions he is not unknown. He holds very strong relations to Jean-Marie Le Pen, chairman of the conservative right wing and racist Front National (FN), who is currently still member of the European Parliament.


The 43-year-old "humourist" performed a U-turn in his political career. Once an opponent of racism, since 2006 he got convicted repeatedly of aspersion, sedition and defamation, for instance of the French chansonnier Patrick Bruel. Last December he honoured on a public event in Paris Robert Faurisson, former professor of literature and a Holocaust denier, with a "prize for maladaption and impertinence". The prize was handed over by a man wearing a concentration camp uniform. In June he will run for Parliament in front of an "anti-communautarist and anti-Zionist" party, he declared.

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