I've opened the file with another editor (vim): the file seems to be ok. I've found that the compiling trouble was for a my error in the copy and paste. So now I think that the file has no (visible) problems and saving it has in some way fixed the duplicate line problem. Today I upgraded to gedit 2.22.0-1 : let's see if the duplicate line incoherence persist...
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