Presidential 2022: Laborious Eric Zemmour

The far-right polemist ended the endless fake suspense that surrounded his candidacy in a Gaullian Phattiche Campaign video followed by an interview with TF1.

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“It was the moment or never,” Loose Eric Zemmour, dedicated, as a last word. At the very end of his interview at the “20 hours” of TF1, Tuesday, November 30, his first as a candidate for the presidential election, the former journalist fails to hide his disappointment: he regrets not having had “questions” on his project. It was the moment or never to address the French who do not look Cnews, the Bolloré chaîne he is the star, that of restarting his campaign that patina. “I’m a candidate, my moulting is done,” he said, when he had declared himself in a video at noon.

The exercise is missed. Eric Zemmour did not seek to reassure his respect for the rule of law: Can he be a candidate, while he was twice sentenced for provocation to racial hatred? “I was condemned on the basis of a law that I feel liberticide, and that I will propose to abolish,” he answered. My freedom of opinion is involved. ” Second difficulty: its relationship to “minorities”, referred to in its video. “I call all Muslims to assimilate and give up the practice of Islam, which consists in imposing a legal and political code.” As for women, that he described as “booties” at the mercy of “Civilized predators”, he responded, strongly annoyed: “This is my best defending project,” rejecting the idea of ​​a “hypothetical white patriarchy” “

Excised, Eric Zemmour took the journalist after the interview, “a Pugnace prosecutor, in bad faith,” he said to the microphone of BFM-TV, according to whom it was up to Treat it from “Connard”. “TF1 had not warned me from that. Mr. Bouleau did not do his job, I know the work of journalist,” he said. Usually the interviewer, depending on the polemicist, “fades politely, humbly, sometimes in a larval way” …

He had, a few hours earlier, declared his candidacy in an unusual format, after an endless false suspense. The video is a kind of Gaullian phatte. In this ten-minute clip, turned two weeks ago, the far-right polemist has seriously read his text, without ever looking up, in a staging inspired by the call of June 18, a huge microphone Located on a desk, in front of a dark and wooded library.

Eric Zemmour has gained his obsession with the decline of France, in a text with literary pretension, interspersed with archival images. His team did not ask for authorization for these extracts, which could argue 300 000 euros fine by sequence: Gaumont, StudioCanal, the INA, the Huffpost and several personalities, amazed by this amateurism, are moved and consider lawsuits. “Quarrels of lawyers” who do not concern him, swept Zemmour at TF1 – his team ensures that everything is being regularized. The Nationalist Candidate has chosen the Beethoven Symphony in the background, a symbol of German romanticism, composed in tribute to the Austrian soldiers wounded by the troops of Napoleon – the radio of Berlin even broadcast the song the 25 April 1945 for Hitler’s birthday.

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