Invited from the morning of France Inter on February 7, the far-right candidate had qualified the HLM of “land of Islamization of the country”.
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Interview, at the Morning from France Inter of February 7, 2022, by Nicolas de Morand, on social housing, the extreme right candidate Eric Zemmour replied, “Everyone knows today, all the French know today except perhaps In this studio and in the office of the gentleman who runs the Abbé-Pierre, that the HLMs are lands of Islamization of the country, and everyone knows today, especially the poor people and the brave people who have remained, who could not run away from these HLMs from kebabs and veiled women, not to mention drug trafficking, these poor French or elsewhere immigrants who can no longer find what they left in Algeria , in Morocco and elsewhere … “
Reacting immediately, Emmanuelle Cosse, President of the Social Union of Habitat (USH), who federates the 600 HLM organizations in France, was embodied against “particularly stigmatizing and misleading words with respect to HLM organizations. and their occupants (…). For 150 years, HLM organizations have welcome French or foreign populations without discrimination. We are part of the Republican Covenant and the 11 million tenants and 80,000 employees and administrators who work on a daily basis to help households. modest to accommodate are insulted by these words. “
” These remarks are a serious insult “
Wednesday 9 February, the USH filed a first complaint, with the Prosecutor of the Republic, for “offense of provocation to discrimination or racial hatred” and “public defamation crime”. The Association Housing and Living Framework Association (CLCV) has already announced, on 8 February, by press release, its wish to “be caught in the complaint filed by the USH, against these intolerable and false words”, arguing that “social housing hosts households from all walks of life and all social classes. A Frenchman currently lives in social housing and one in two French people lived there for a moment in his life. These words are a serious insult. “
For his part, the National Confederation of Housing (CNL), by the voice of its president, Eddie Jacquemart, declared, at the beginning of the week, his intention to file a complaint, too: “For us, it’s a times too much. These remarks are outrageous. “
In reality, out of the 10 to 11 million people living in the five million social housing, 11% are foreigners outside the European Union with a regular residence permit – moreover essential to access such a housing – according to the numbers of 2017.
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