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Une quenelle pour Manuel Valls
A French court has overturned a ban on a show by controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala due to be performed on Thursday night.

The show in the city of Nantes will open Dieudonne's tour.

He has seven convictions for anti-Semitic hate speech and was recently recorded making anti-Semitic remarks about a Jewish journalist.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls has said he will appeal to the Council of State, France's highest administrative court.

The court's decision "has not exhausted legal options" in the case, Mr Valls said. The Council of State is reportedly due to give a decision at 17:00 on Thursday (16:00 GMT), with the possibility that the show may yet be prevented from going ahead.

A statement from the court in Nantes said it did not regard the show, entitled The Wall, as having "an attack on human dignity as its main object", the AFP agency reports.

In a reflection of the comedian's popularity in spite of his notoriety, 5,000 tickets had already reportedly been sold for the Nantes performance.

Thursday's court verdict is a big victory for Dieudonne, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

On his Facebook page, the comic posted simply: "We have won!"

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