French comedian gives award to Holocaust denier
A controversial French comedian has sparked outrage by giving a"heroism"
award to a Holocaust denier.
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Dieudonné, 42, gave the award for"social unacceptability and insolence" to Robert Faurisson, an academic with a string of convictions in France for denying the existence of Nazi death camps.
Dieudonné himself has a conviction for making anti-Semitic remarks.
The far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and several figures on the French far-left were in the audience at Le Zenith, the largest music and theatre auditorium in Paris, the Independent reports.
The award was handed to Mr Faurisson - to loud cheers - by a stage-hand dressed as a Jewish deportee, with a yellow star on his chest.