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Comedian fined for mocking Zidane

March 8, 2013
By Ian Holyman, France Correspondent
A comedian who called Zinedine Zidane "a billboard with three neurones" has been fined for insulting the former France captain by a Paris court.

Christophe Aleveque was ordered to pay €5,000 in damages to Zidane by the French capital's Court of Appeal following the insults, which appeared in an interview the comedian gave to Sport-Mag in January 2011. Aleveque had also called the 1998 World Cup winner "a whore", and said he was "as stupid as a dick".

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