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Did a French Comedian Inspire the Killings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels?

JL;DR SUMMARY This article explores the potential influence of the controversial French comedian Dieudonné and Belgian politician Laurent Louis on the rise of anti-Semitic sentiment, as exemplified by the 2014 Jewish Museum killings in Brussels. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Hate SpeechIranFranceJewish MuseumMediaBelgiumBrusselsDieudonnéLaurent Louis

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Brussels, Belgium
"Immediately after an unknown killer walked into the Jewish museum in Brussels and gunned down four people, the president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, Jol Rubinfeld, made the following statement."
Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
"The show was set to premiere on Jan. 9 at 8 p.m in the Zenith Theater of Nantes (Bretagne)."
Paris, France
"Nine months later, the team of an investigative show aired by France2, Complment denqute, succeeded in introducing a hidden camera in Dieudonns La Main dOr, the small theater the comedian has been renting since 1999 in the popular 12th arrondissement of Paris."
Brittany, France
"Dieudonn MBala Mbala was born in France in 1966, the son of a Cameroonian accountant father and a white sociologist mother from Bretagne (Brittany)."
Nivelles, Brussels, Belgium
"Laurent Louis is 34 years old, born in the Walloon town of Nivelles, Belgium."
Pays-de-la-Loire, France
"The show was set to premiere on Jan. 9 at 8 p.m in the Zenith Theater of Nantes (Bretagne)."

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