FRANCE 24
by Staff
September 6, 2014

A controversial French comedian is under investigation for condoning terrorism after comparing the murder of US journalist James Foley by Islamist militants to the beheadings of the French Revolution, saying they symbolise “progress”.

Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, who has been convicted a number of times for making anti-Semitic jokes, said that decapitation “symbolises, before anything, progress – access to civilisation” in a video that appeared on the Internet last month.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said police were starting a preliminary investigation into Dieudonné on the grounds that he had condoned terrorism with the remarks.

Foley was beheaded by militants of the Islamic State (IS) organisation last month after being kidnapped while covering the Syrian conflict and held for 20 months. The act caused outrage around the world……

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