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French riot police stand outside the Zenith arena where French comic Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, known as Dieudonne, will have his show in Nantes, France, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. A French court has overturned a ban that the city of Nantes imposed on the show, Thursday night, by a comic whose performances some consider to be anti-Semitic. But Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who has pushed to get Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala off the stage, lodged an urgent appeal with the Council of State, France's highest administrative authority, to combat what he called the "mechanics of hate."(AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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People waving a French flag and holding a pineapple outside the Zenith arena where French comic Dieudonne's show was banned in Nantes, France, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. France’s top administrative body has turned the tables on Dieudonne, ruling in an urgent decision that his Thursday night show could not take place. The decision by the Council of State in Paris overturned a Nantes court ruling hours earlier that had annulled the ban the city had imposed on the show by Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala. The comic was convicted last fall for using the word "Shoananas," a mash-up of the Hebrew word for Holocaust and the French word for pineapple. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Jacques Vernier, right, a lawyer for controversial comic Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, shakes hands with Pascale Leglise, a law representative of the Interior Ministry, at a courtroom in Nantes, France, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 before the court decides whether it is legal to ban Dieudonne's show in Nantes . France's interior minister said Monday that local officials have the right to ban shows on a national tour of the comic whose performances are considered anti-Semitic. At center is Interior Ministry's lawyer Plateaux. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
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Jacques Vernier, right, a lawyer for controversial comic Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, talks to Interior Ministry's lawyer Plateaux at a courtroom in Nantes, France, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 before the court decides whether its legal to ban Dieudonne's show in Nantes. France's interior minister said Monday that local officials have the right to ban shows on a national tour of the comic whose performances are considered anti-Semitic. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
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Jacques Vernier, a lawyer for the controversial comic Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, answers questions from journalists after leaving a courtroom in Nantes, France, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. The court is to decide whether it's legal to ban Dieudonne's show in Nantes. France's interior minister said Monday that local officials have the right to ban shows on a national tour of the comic whose performances are considered anti-Semitic. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
