Tribune. From Saturday 11 to Tuesday, December 14, Eric Zemmour, candidate for the French presidential election, is in Armenia. He is the author of the first sex (Denoël 2006), on the devirilization of society, French suicide (Albin Michel 2014, in which he seeks in particular to rehabilitate the Petain Marshal, or the French destiny (Albin Michel 2018) where he defends the thesis of the invasion of France by the immigrants. To justify his racism and xenophobia, Éric Zemmour does not hesitate to distort the history, insinuating that the Nazis have never been so intolerant as the Muslims; he defends the legacy of the Petain Marshal who would have “saved French Jews” – omitting the fact that many Jews have been fallen from their French nationality before being sent to the camps.
His theory of races creates a hierarchy between what he considers to be good and bad immigrants. The Armenians seem to find thanks to his eyes: two Armenians, Charles Aznavour and Henri Verneuil, are cited in his speech announcing his candidacy, Armenians are close to his campaign team, and he has, during the war, taken public publicly for the Armenia … but what about really?
In the adoption in France of the law penalizing the negation of genocides, including the genocide of the Armenians, because of which Erdoğan had threatened France of diplomatic retaliation, Zemmour had adopted a resolutely pro-Turkish position, by assimilating such law to a “memorial obsession”. Did not compare this memorial law to a logic of the inquisition making genocide victims, the executioners of their own executioners? According to him, the fight against negationism would be purely “electoralist” and “dangerous for freedom of expression”.
Get the voice of the Armenians of France
So why Éric Zemmour, hostile to the penalization of the negation of the genocide of Armenians, the pontic Greeks and Assyrias, does it make its first trip as a candidate in Yerevan? To obtain, no doubt, the voices of the Armenians of France, as soon as it will seek to do this another candidate of the right, Valérie Pécresse, who also plans a first trip, very next, in Armenia.
Éric Zemmour does not come in Armenia to talk to Armenians. It comes with the aim of collecting the voting newsletters of some Armenians from France who, after the war of the Upper Karabagh, triggered by the Azerbaijan, satellite of Turkey, in 2020, face their own hatreds. They hear in the candidate’s speech an answer that could seem comforting, a call for aid made many times from an international community that has never intervened. In doing so, Eric Zemmour instrumentalizes the cause of the Christians of the East has become a hunt kept from the extreme right, even that this extreme right sees in these Christians only one way to justify his Islamophobia.
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