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Sarah Ward

Scots council sorry after X-rated comment about Jimmy Carr Holocaust joke row

Fife Council issued a grovelling apology after an X-rated comment was posted on Facebook regarding controversial comments by Jimmy Carr about the Holocaust.

The comedian made offensive remarks about the killing of gypsies during the Holocaust in a Netflix show, and has been accused of 'celebrating genocide' in a petition signed by 13,000 people, started by the Traveller Movement.

The petition said: "In Netflix comedy special 'His Dark Material', Jimmy Carr 'jokes' that the Romani and Sinti genocide is ignored when people discuss the Holocaust because people don't want to 'focus on the positives'.

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