The polemicist is quoted for composition of provocation to racial hatred and racial injury. During a debate on the CNEWS chain, in September 2020, he had qualified the miners isolated from “thieves, rapists and murders”.
Le Monde with AFP
His defense has warned: “For the serenity of the debates”, Eric Zemmour will not come at the hearing, who opens on Wednesday, 17 November at 9:30 am, and for which he is summoned because of the The CNEWS chain, September 29, 2020, on isolated miners.
The far-right polemicist, who does not hide his presidential ambitions for 2022 but did not declare himself candidate again, will be represented by his lawyers “he will not be present, in order to avoid the judicial enclosure. Does only turn into a continuous information TV studio, “said M e Olivier Pardo.
Using controversial outputs, Eric Zemmour is this time quoted by the parquet for compaction complicity with racial hatred and racial injury. During a debate of the show “Facing the info” on miners isolated after an attack in front of the ex-premises of Charlie Hebdo, the columnist said, “They have nothing to do here, they are thieves , they are murdered, they are violators, that’s all they are, you have to send them back and you do not even have to come. “
” Amalgames and racism “
His defense believes that Mr. Zemmour did only “repeal with different words” the concerns expressed by the authorities on the delinquency related to unaccompanied minors.
Eric Zemmour’s young people, “Generation Z”, have planned a rally before the court before the opening of the hearing, which should have been held on September 8, but was returned because of the large number of civil parts.
Thirty of them were formed, including SOS Racism Associations, the League of Human Rights (LDH) and the House of Potes, as well as twenty departmental councils, unaccompanied minors being supported by child welfare, managed by the departments.
“These are young people who have the right to protection and a dignified welcome,” said France-Presse Agency (AFP), the Socialist President of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis Stéphane Troussel, consisting of civilian “because we can not tolerate amalgams and racism of which this graduate of the Republic is customary”.
“What are the departmental advice in this case?”, Criticized Mr. Zemmour’s Defense. “It’s pure political if they are there”.
several times relaxed
The remarks held on the antenna are “absolutely intolerable” and suggest that “any insulated minor is a power offender who comes in France to commit abuses,” said SOS racism lawyer, M E Patrick Klugman. “It’s the essence of racism”.
As is the use in the press process, the boss of Canal + will be judged alongside Mr. Zemmour, as a broadcaster of the words. The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) has already sanctioned, in March, the information chain of a fine of 200,000 euros, for “incitement to hatred” and “to violence”.
“Constraint” by a decision of the CSA, CNEWS announced mid-September that Mr. Zemmour, locomotive hearings since his arrival on the chain in 2019, would no longer intervene in the show. Several voices had previously been high to denounce the forum offered every day to a candidate potential for the presidential election.
The position of the 63-year-old polemicist has earned him, for about ten years, about fifteen lawsuits. Several times relaxed, he was sentenced twice for provocation to hatred.