Now Gypsies want Borat banned

A German group representing Gypsies says it has filed a suit to try to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen showing his latest film in Germany.

"We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against [Gypsies]," said Marko Knudsen, head of the European Centre of Antiziganism Research.

Antiziganism refers to hostility to gypsies.

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The group said it had filed a complaint to prosecutors over the film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, saying it treated violence and discrimination against Gypsy peoples as acceptable behaviour.

State prosecutors in Hamburg will investigate the allegations before deciding whether to take action.

In the satirical film, which is due to open in Germany on November 2, Cohen, creator of the comic character Ali G, plays Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh television journalist who travels to the United States to report back on the American way of life.

The film's comic barbs also target Gypsies, Jews, women and many other groups.

The complaint adds to a series of protests against Cohen's creation, whose comedy character's views are not only racist and anti-Semitic but also misogynist and homophobic.

Some of the most prominent criticism has come from Kazakhstan, Borat's central Asian homeland.

Knudsen's group has asked for an injunction to stop the film from being shown in Germany.

"We called the distributors, but they laughed at us," he said.

References:
SMH: NowGypsieswant Borat Banned [Reuters ]
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