Controversial French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala has been sentenced to two months in jail by a Belgian court for racist and anti-Semitic comments he made during a show in Belgium.
Dieudonne was also fined €9,000 ($9,500; £6,300) by the court in the city of Liege. He was not in court.
The comedian, who insists he is not anti-Semitic, made the remarks during a show in Liege in 2012.
He has several convictions for anti-Semitism and hate speech.
One of his most recent was after the attack in January on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Dieudonne rose to prominence through the invention of the "quenelle", a hand gesture critics have likened to an inverted Nazi salute.
Several French cities have banned the comedian from performing. 'A major victory'
The Belgian court's judgement on Wednesday said that "all the accusations against Dieudonne were established - both incitement to hatred and hate speech but also Holocaust denial".
Eric Lemmens, a lawyer for Belgium's Jewish organisations, said the guilty verdict was a "major victory".
Earlier this month the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Dieudonne in a separate case. It judged that freedom of speech did not mean his performances could be racist or anti-Semitic.
Dieudonne was at that time appealing against a fine he received from a French court in 2009 for inviting a Holocaust denier on stage.
In March, Dieudonne was found guilty by a French court of condoning terrorism and given a two-month sentence.
He had posted on Facebook "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly" just days after the January Paris attacks..
The post combined the "Je Suis Charlie" slogan with the name of one of the three gunmen involved in the attacks on Charlie Hebdo.
RevDesmondJuju: There is no law on hate speech in Nigeria.
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
Na so the thing pain you Abeg go take rat poison to end your pains Asap...
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
another mental escapee from tribe of professional rat poison consumption. Like ancestor like generation
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
Are your people respectful to their elders? Even the so called Elders are busy raping there own Children. Don't preach about respect here. We are forced into this by the way we are being treated in the same Country we called ours.
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
Ask your father about the cashew processing plant in Ihamufu, ask your father why nigerian government closed it down. we made use of it we can still make use of it. We manufacture you import, better let NNAMDI and Biafra be.
However you feel you're being treated, are the fruits of the seeds of hatred and bigotry you planted during the elections in this country you call yours.
M4gunners: Are your people respectful to their elders? Even the so called Elders are busy raping there own Children. Don't preach about respect here. We are forced into this by the way we are being treated in the same Country we called ours.
QuotaSystem: However you feel you're being treated, are the fruits of the seeds of hatred and bigotry you planted during the elections in this country you call yours.
... Lying propagandist, can you post ANY evidence where a prominent Igbo personality insulted or maligned your father or race?
Which ethnic group have built a better bridge than the Igbos who have exhibited more 'Nigerianness' by permeating every nook and cranny of Nigeria, peacefully building and establishing business empires, and growing the economy of the locals and that of the country at large, and some of them even getting married to the locals?
In the 90s, the NADECO's unlicensed and inciting Radio Kudirat was hitting the airwaves, did any of your elites condemn it?
Before the 2015 general elections, did you condemn the highly inciting Radio Chanji in the North?
Between Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani who makes lousy, provoking noise and propaganda using every available media outfit?
In the build up to the 2015 general elections certain people made careless and careless utterances thereby heating up the polity. Is any of them Igbo
The likes of FFK, Fayose, Fashola, Tinubu, Lai, El Rufai, Junaid Mohammed, Obj and Sahara Reporters who heated the polity with their utterances, is any of them Igbo?
Ever since you were born, have you seen or heard anywhere Igbos are on rampage, killing people and destroying means of livelihoods for no just cause?
How many of your elites dare challenge the Hausa-Fulani-Kanuris or Yorubas for their unjust ways? How many of you dare counter the numerous killings and destruction of lives and properties that have been occurring for many decades in the North unabated?
The Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have over the century propagated despicable, hate speeches in their mosques and still execute the unconscionable, cold-hearted waste of human lives and reckless destruction of means of livelihoods in the North and Middle-belt. And they now have the presidency while the backstabbing Yorubas vice-presidency! Such a misnomer can only happen in the jungle!
A number of Yorubas even go to the extent of carrying wicked lies about how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been peace-loving and accommodative; that it's the Igbos that always provoke their hosts in the North warranting the pogrom and other heinous crimes against the Igbos. Yet in the same North and the Middle-belt the Christian minorities and other Southerners are maltreated, relegated to the background and even killed.
You say that Igbos are arrogant, and that they don't respect their hosts while you subtly proclaim that the Hausa-Fulanis are peace-loving and accommodative. You don’t like Igbos but you still fought and killed them to be in this fraudulent union where your likes are favoured by the injustice, inequity and lopsided arrangement in the polity. And your people even had the effrontery to castigate Igbos for seeking a self-determination!
Many of you hold the view that Igbos should be grateful for being allowed to live in their part of the country, in the same 'One Nigeria'! You say Igbos disrespect and denigrate their host when Igbos choose to exercise their franchise right. And you don't seem to see anything wrong in Oba Akiolu's threat to drown Igbos in the Lagos lagoon if they fail to vote for his anointed candidate! The same threat was backed by many Yorubas including Dr Ariyo in the US who even called for genocide.
IGBOS HATE NOBODY EXCEPT YOU ARE A SWORN ENEMY TO TRUTH, JUSTICE AND EQUITY. At the 2015 presidential election Igbos only exercised their franchise right just like other tribes.
If Igbos are the promoters of hate in Nigeria, can anyone tell us any instance where Igbos go about causing mayhem, killing and destroying means of livelihoods for no just cause?
It's only mischievous bigots in the society that turn blind eye to the evil and injustice, and permit the atrocities to flourish in the land because they gain from the lopsided arrangement in the polity. GENESIS OF HATRED IN NIGERIA
1* “We do not want our Southern neighbours to interfere in our development. We have never associated ourselves with the activities of these people. We do not know them, we do not recognize them, and we share no responsibility in their actions. We shall demand our rights when the time is ripe. If the British quit Nigeria now at this stage, the Northern people would continue their uninterrupted conquest to the sea”. - Sir Tafawa Balewa (1947)
2* “We the people of the North will continue our stated intention to conquer the South and to dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean after the British leave our shores.” - Sir Ahmadu Bello (1957)
3* "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future" - Sir Ahmadu Bello, October 12, 1960
Ahmadu Bello, arrogantly uttered the aforementioned statement in a multicultural and multi-religious country and got away with it, and many bigots still hold him in high esteem and even shove it down the throats of other people.
5*...barely six months after independence, Sir Ahmadu Bello was able to say with confidence in the Daily Times of May 3, 1961, the following: “I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century.”
6*...sometime in 2010, when upon the demise of President Umaru Y'Ardua, indications emerged that his erstwhile deputy, President Goodluck Jonathan, may contest the 2011 presidential election, a prominent chieftain of this same ACF, Lawal Kaita, who was a former Governor of old Kaduna State, threatened that the North would make Nigeria ungovernable, should Jonathan or anyone from the South win the 2011 presidential election, claiming that such would amount to denying the North it's birthright of ruling Nigeria.
7* It is in the same North barbaric statements like this were uttered in 2011: ”BABOON AND DOG WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD”. And what was the outcome - carnage and murder of many Southerners and Christians in the North, including many Youth Corps members when Buhari lost the 2011 presidential election?
8* That true to that threat, upon the victory of Jonathan from the 2011 presidential election, massive violence was unleashed from the North by a group which called itself Boko Haram and which repeatedly took responsibility for unending mayhem which began with the killing of Youth Corp members who worked ad-hoc for INEC in that election.
9* As the barbaric killings and destructions reigned, especially with the attack by Boko Haram on the UN Building and Force Headquarters in Abuja, the Lower Niger Congress publicly posited that the nexus between the aforementioned threat by ACF's, Lawal Kaita and the Boko Haram's bloody campaigns summarily destroyed any prospects for keeping the Nigeria Union.
10* "It was, therefore, no surprise that in October 2013, following the bold announcement by President Jonathan, presenting the sudden prospect of revisiting the master-servant constitutional arrangements of Nigeria infuriated the warmongering born-to-rule Caliphate whose cause was championed by the same ACF, and who, supported by their allies from the renegade wing of the Yoruba Southwest, launched a vicious, frontal attack on the initiative, teaming on the floor of the Conference into a majority, and driving the Conference into its first major decision, i.e. NOT TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF NIGERIA'S UNITY. The rest of the Conference was a jamboree that provided a luxurious platform for the North/SW Alliance, parading itself as a new political party named APC, to fine-tune their violent March to the do-or-die 2015 general elections."
QuotaSystem: NK is ultimately going to be tried for treason, not just hate speech.
Get some sense man, self determination and agitation for self rule is not treason. IPOB is registered with the UN Nnamdi kanu being the leader which gives him right to solicit for weapon for self defence if their life is being threatened to death as indigenous people, which is the case here in Nigeria that soldiers killing unarmed Biafrans. The case is a dead one if the judges will be fair but you niaja na.
The lawyers ask the court to discontinue Kanu trial because they have fresh evidences against him. Kanu will be tried for treason and if you can be sincere with yourself he will be found guilty because of those deadly statements on YouTube and radio Biafra.
So brace yourself to protest to aso rock and the Zoo soldiers will follow the ROE and send the protesters to where they belong.
If you want war we will give you war, if you win you have Biafra.
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
Idiot start by arresting your president the Duara dictator who said Baboon and monkeys will be socked in blood and it came to past...also arrest Atiku who said we will make this country ungovernable and it came to past.
[s]Get some sense man, self determination and agitation for self rule is not treason. IPOB is registered with the UN Nnamdi kanu being the leader which gives him right to solicit for weapon for self defence if their life is being threatened to death as indigenous people, which is the case here in Nigeria that soldiers killing unarmed Biafrans. The case is a dead one if the judges will be fair but you niaja na. [/s]
Then you are an idiot, a big one! This has to be because iboz have no respect for their elders and always wake up their fathers with a sliding tackle early in the morning. He will be tried for treason and all the prosecution needs is to show the video evidence floating around on Youtube / Nairaland in the US asking for guns, for weapons, his recorded hate speech on radio and it is proven that it is him in the videos. After that, he must be convicted and sentenced to firing squad execution! Even Benjamin Onwuka will be better than him in this case! Stoopid beaterners!
Igbos don't have respect for their elders , yet you resist their call for Biafra which would see Yoruba land free of their presence