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Real Madrid's Karim Benzema from France, centre, celebrates his goal during a Spanish Copa del Rey soccer match between Real Madrid and Osasuna at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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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)
