Pressure mounts on French comic in racism row

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Pressure mounts on French comic in racism row

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/paris-mayor-joins-calls-ban-french-comic-dieudonne-134043887.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2AlkfOWbDOb.n1ARc_EikA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbf5207961d1cd709a17626fd724e613a6c65d8b.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Controversial French comedian Dieudonne arrives at court in Paris on December 13, 2013 to face charges of defamation, insult and incentive to hate and discrimination" align="left" title="Controversial French comedian Dieudonne arrives at court in Paris on December 13, 2013 to face charges of defamation, insult and incentive to hate and discrimination" border="0" /></a>The mayor of Paris has joined France's interior minister in calling for comedian Dieudonne, whose vitriolic brand of humour targeting Jews has caused outrage, to be banned from the stage. Anti-racist groups also threatened legal action against a provocative arm gesture Dieudonne makes which has been described as an upside-down Nazi salute. Dieudonne has been part of France's comedy scene for years, but while he started out with a Jewish comedian in sketches that mocked racism, he gradually veered to the far-right and alienated some fans with anti-Jewish comments -- one of his latest being a joke about gas chambers. &quot;We must ban the performances (of the comedian),&quot; he said, echoing recent comments made by Interior Minister Manuel Valls.</p><br clear="all"/>

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