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Bob Dylan charged with ‘incitement to hatred’

Bob Dylan has been charged in France with incitement to hatred for comparing Croats to Nazis in an interview with Rolling Stone.

A French judicial source said Monday that Dylan was questioned and charged last month while in Paris.

In the 2012 interview, Dylan compared the relationship between Croats and Serbs to that of Nazis and Jews.

“If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that,” Dylan said.

“That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood.”

French media law bars incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence on the grounds of a person’s origin or ethnic group.

A rep said Dylan was not aware of the proceedings.

Croatia and Serbia fought after the breakup of Yugoslavia in a war that left some 20,000 people dead.