The far-right candidate is accused of alleged acts when he was a journalist, from 1999 to 2019. His entourage accuses Mediapart of “recycle [R]” testimonials.
Le Monde with AFP
In a video survey published by Mediapart Tuesday, March 8 In the morning, eight women, some of which discovered, accuse Eric Zemmour of inappropriate behaviors and sexual assaults, for alleged facts ranging from 1999 at 2019, when he was a journalist. The entourage of the far-right candidate reacted to the France-Presse agency (AFP) believing that “Mediapart wants to make a blow to the day of the day of the woman by recycling the testimonials already released the last year. Shabby at five weeks of the first round “of the presidential election. The candidate has a refused to answer the questions of the journalists of the information site.
If some of the women present in the video had already testified with Mediapart in two articles published during the year 2021, others speak for the first time publicly. This is the case of Claire. Then 18 years old, she recounts having made a brief internship in journalism within the editorial of Figaro in 2002. Called by Eric Zemmour to help her settle a computer problem at her office, the latter says he have “sen [Ti ] His hand in [s] on dos who makes trips from bottom to top “.
The trainee reports this behavior to his reference of internship, Pascale Wild, a former colleague of the political editorialist within the national daily. The journalist then decides to warn his colleague: “I told him,” you do not touch the trainee. “” She says that Mr. Zemmour replied, “If now we can not drag the trainees anymore. Trainees It’s still done to do blowjobs and coffee. “
For Eric Zemmour,” It’s Word for Word “
Another former trainee, Séverine, accuses him of having held “very raw proposals of sexual relations” and to have it “blocked against the wall of the elevator and kissed by force on the mouth” during His passage in internship in the editorial of Figaro in 1999.
Other testimonies, Gaëlle Lenfant, former responsible for the rights of women of the Socialist Party (PS), elected opposition to the Municipal Council of Aix-en-Provence, also accuses the former editorialist of having it ” kissing force “at a summer university of the PS held at La Rochelle in the early 2000s, while it was” young socialist activist “.
She had been the first of the eight women to have spoken on such facts on April 24 2021, in a post on Facebook, then in an article from Mediapart . “I found myself so stunned that I could not do anything but repel him and run away”, then releted M me with the independent media. In the video, she says he has since adequate complaint.
On December 9, 2021, interviewed on France 2 on the previous items of Mediapart reporting these accusations, Eric Zemmour had estimated not “not” to answer. I do not speak of my privacy. These women. Allow me, without any evidence, it is a word of words. “Released by Mediapart again before the publication of this new investigation for a right of reply, the reconquest candidate! did not follow up.
Monday, March 7, the day before the publication of the investigation, he was questioned as other candidates by LCI and it concerning the rights of women and violence against them. He then declared: “The violence made by men, that it is inside the family or outside, I mean, all violence is absolutely unforgivable and must be sanctioned very severely.”