The presidential candidate qualified on CNEWS the miners migrants isolated from “thieves”, “murderers”, “violers”.
Le Monde
The presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was sentenced to 10,000 euros for provocation to the racial hatred by the Criminal Court of Paris, on January 17, for qualifying on CNEWS the miners migrants isolated from “thieves” , “Assassins” and “rapists” in September 2020.
Believing that the polemicist had been guilty of provocation to hate and racial insult, the parquet had required a prolutions of 100 days to 100 euros, or 10,000 euros fine with the possibility of imprisonment in case non-payment. The parquet of Paris had also required 5,000 euros of fine against the CNEWS publication director, judged at the side of Eric Zemmour as it is the use in the press process.
The candidate for the supreme function, which had shunned the hearing on November 17, was not present on Monday before the e Correctional Chamber for the reading of the judgment. Already pursued many times for racial insult, provocation to hatred or challenge of crime against humanity, Mr. Zemmour was this time quoted by the prosecution for his remarks on insulated minor migrants.
Thirty civilian associations
On September 29, 2020, during a debate in the show “Facing the info” on CNEWS after an attack in front of the ex-premises of Charlie Hebdo, the polemicist claimed: “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 do not even come from. “
“This is a permanent invasion,” “it is a problem of immigration policy,” he later vociferous in this broadcast he was chronicler. “Contemptuous, outrageous”, which show “a violent rejection” and a “disseminated” of the immigrant population and who have crossed “the limits of freedom of expression”, the representative of the public prosecutor had felt.
“There is not an ounce of racism at Eric Zemmour”, who only says “reality”, sometimes of “brutal way, with his words, had supported M e Olivier Pardo, evoking “a political position”. For the Council, the quote for provocation to racial hatred did not stand: “Isolated minors are neither a race nor a nation nor an ethnic group.”
Thirty associations consisted of civilians, including SOS-Racism, the League of Human Rights (LDH) and the International League Against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA), as well as twenty of departmental advice – unaccompanied minors being supported by child welfare, managed by the departments.
Liability of the information channel
In their pleadings, the civil parties had emphasized the responsibility of the information chain, including the “hate speech” is “the merits”. The controversial outings of Eric Zemmour, 63, compels to mid-September to leave CNEWS because of its presidential ambitions, have earned it for about ten years a fortnight of lawsuits. Several times relaxed, he was sentenced twice for provocation to hatred.
The far-right candidate must be judged on appeal on Thursday for Crime Contestation Against Humanity after supporting CNEWS in October 2019 that Marshal Philippe Pétain had “saved” French Jews. It had been relaxed in February 2021, the Tribunal considering that the words had been pronounced “to be burned during a debate on the war in Syria”.
His lawyer will seek the reference of this hearing, less than three months of the first round of the presidential election and “because it is an offense of opinion”, esteem M e Pardo with AFP. Justice has also set a new deadline for Eric Zemmour on Friday: it will be judged in May 2023 for aggravated defamation, for remarks in 2019 on the “feminist movement” and the “LGBT movement”.