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French comedian Dieudonne has been arrested for allegedly defending terrorism in a Facebook comment referencing last week's attacks in Paris. Prosecutors opened a case against the notorious comedian on Monday after he posted the comment which appeared to sympathise with the Islamist gunmen who left 17 people dead. Playing on the slogan "Je suis Charlie", the comedian wrote: "Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Coulibaly." Amedy Coulibaly is accused of murdering a policewoman and then storming a kosher supermarket, shooting dead four shoppers. He claimed to have been collaborating with brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who slaughtered 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. All three gunmen were subsequently killed in police raids. The first edition of the magazine to be published after the attacks sold out just hours after going on sale, with queues reported around Paris newsstands. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described Dieudonne's comments as "contemptible" on a visit to Paris' Jewish community. The comment has since been deleted. Dieudonne has previously sparked controversy over his use of a hand-gesture resembling a Nazi salute, considered by many to be anti-Semitic. The Home Office banned him from entering the UK after footballer Nicolas Anelka was accused of using the comic's 'quenelle' salute on the pitch. In an exclusive Sky News interview, Dieudonne described the footballer as a "prince".