A French court opened a criminal investigation into a comic who performed an anti-Semitic sketch on live TV. Paris prosecutors said Wednesday that Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala could be charged with racial incitement for the sketch, in which he appeared dressed as a fervently Orthodox Jew.
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