After the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, the slogan "I am Charlie" has almost become synonymous with advocating freedom of speech. On January 14, French comedian Dierdone was arrested for saying "I am Charlie Coury Bary" on social media.
Coulibaly was the robber of the Jewish supermarket robbery, killing a total of 4 hostages and a policeman.
The full text of Dieudone's January 12 Facebook post read: "I have just participated in this historic parade that is not legendary enough, this magical moment is enough to compare to the Big Bang, or the coronation ceremony equivalent of Vicintoli, and I am on my way home." Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I'm like Charlie Colibaly. Two days later, he was formally arrested by the French police. The march it refers to was last Sunday's massive French million march in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo.
At present, Dieudone's controversial remarks that "I am like Charlie Coulibaly" have been removed.
The Associated Press reported that the French police concentrated on cracking down on extremist remarks on the 14th, and a total of 54 people were arrested on the same day for speaking "supporting and praising terrorism", and Dieudone was one of them.
In 2013, French star Anelka was suspended for five games after imitating Dieudone's Nazi gestures in the Premier League. Dieudone coined a gesture called "quenelle", in which one hand touches the other shoulder across the chest and the other spreads the palm downwards and points to the ground. "quenelle" originally meant "fish stuffed balls", but gradually became synonymous with this gesture. The Jewish community believes that the gesture is imitating a Nazi salute (one hand on the shoulder and the other hand spread out to lift up) and is a symbol of anti-Semitism.
In 2014, Dierdone joked about the Holocaust during the performance, and the French government banned it for "anti-Semitism" tendencies. Subsequently, Dieudone revised the content of the performance.
According to the Website of the British "Independent", French Interior Minister Kazenaf condemned Dieudonne's "I am Charlie Coulibaly" statement and ordered an investigation into whether the comedian's remarks were enough to constitute "support for terrorism". Earlier, according to the Report of the French Media quoted by the Global Network on January 9, Kazenaf said that he is currently paying close attention to the movement of social networks. He warned that anyone who dared to publish a post praising the Paris Charlie Attack could result in a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.
The Independent reported that French Prime Minister Valls accused Dieudone of "selling hatred" in parliament on the 13th, and he also said that there was no room for ambiguity between "inappropriately mocking Charlie Hebdo" and "anti-Semitism, racism, and historical nihilism".
On the same day, Dieudone published an open letter saying that, like Charlie Hebdo, he was a victim of the suppression of free speech — the government persecuted him. He argued that his original intention was "I was seen as Coulibaly, but it was actually Charlie." ”
Dieudone (infographic)
According to a previous article published in the Oriental Morning Post, Dieudonne was born in 1966, his father is Cameroonian, his mother is French, and he grew up in the southern suburbs of Paris. The chocolate-skinned, mixed-race African-American uncle initially took the political position of indicting the colonial history of France and other Western countries, especially the original sin of slavery. Throughout the 1990s, he was active in the political arena as a leftist, with political views focused on guaranteeing the rights of immigrants. In 1997, he ran for parliament in the Delek region of north-central France and sang against the region's far-right National Front.
Gong Ke, the author of the article, said that after 2005, Dieudone's position gradually moved closer to the enemy of the year, the National Front. He not only frequently attended events organized by the National Front, but also shook hands with the party's leading figures, especially the head of the party at the time, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The reason for the shift from "anti-oppression" to "anti-Semitism" was that the Jews played an active role in the slave trade of that year, which accumulated wealth for the later great banks and laid the foundation for today's "manipulation of the world". Frequent anti-Semitic outrageous remarks made him a regular visitor to the court. Since 2000, he has been fined by courts at least seven times for speech abuse, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of euros each time.
The slogan "I am Charlie" has been echoed by the people of Europe and the United States