Bob Dylan investigated over incitement to racial hatred claim

Singer Bob Dylan is being investigated in France with inciting hatred over a 2012 interview in which he compared Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

The Paris prosecutor’s office revealed that charges of “public insult and inciting hate” were filed in mid-November.

The charges stemmed from a legal action by a Croatian community group in France over the interview in Rolling Stone magazine. A lawyer for the group, Ivan Jurasinovic, said they only want Dylan to apologise to the Croatian people for the comments.

He did not say why they filed the case in France. The country has strict laws punishing hate speech and racist remarks.

AP