The comedian Nicolas Bedos trial for racial insult – Le Figaro

The French actor is accused by the Collectifdom racist after chronic appeared in Marianne .

Collectifdom Association (Collective of West Indians, Guyana, Reunion and Mayotte) continued Monday Nicolas Bedos racial insult before the Paris Criminal Court for chronic published in Marianne in December 2012 on the paper version as on the website.

In these texts, comedian and actor used expressions such as “island indolence”, “negro motherfucker” or “indigenous idlers” to the dispute. For this association, it is not humor but of racist statements.

According to the chairman of Collectifdom, the notion of indolence has “a special meaning to us,” she connected with “he who does not feel the pain.” That of “lashes” added the lawyer of the association, Mr. Vincent Merrien, for whom the issue is not whether Nicolas Bedos is racist, but if his words are.

Selected by a shoot, Nicolas Bedos could not be present at the hearing but nevertheless received the support of the representative of the prosecutor, who advocated the release. She said it was registering the disputed expressions in context. Nicolas Bedos was an account of his holiday in the Caribbean and the blues of his return in France. He spoke of his meeting with his taxi driver, “a genius”, “wonderful product of island indolence”, which “handles so well that the French language is chilling lexical my clitoris,” wrote Nicolas Bedos. He concluded this passage by expressing his admiration for the Guadeloupe with “negro motherfucker.” “It is singular,” said the judge, not seeing “how one can imagine whether it is an insult to racial character.”

In these columns, ” Nicolas Bedos what exactly wanted to do is fight racism “, for his part argued by counsel for the comedian, Me Lauranne Favre.

The comedian is now” prohibited stay in Guadeloupe “. The deliberate is expected for 10 November.