The polemicist had passed in court for a speech castigating “colonizers” immigrants and an “Islamization of the street”. The Court of Cassation has canceled its release.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
Far -right polemicist Eric Zemmour will be re -joined for his virulent diatriber against Islam and immigration in 2019 during a political meeting called “Convention of the right”, the Court of Cassation having canceled Tuesday, February 21 His relaxation pronounced in September 2021. The highest court of the judicial order ordered a new trial before the Paris Court of Appeal for the ex-presidential candidate, which will be reached for public insults and provocation to hatred racial.
During this “right convention” organized by relatives of the ex-deputy of the National Front (now RN) Marion Maréchal on September 28, 2019, Eric Zemmour had given a discourse castigating “colonizers” immigrants and a “Islamization of the street”. The columnist had also described the veil and the djellaba as “the uniforms of an occupation army”.
At first instance, the Paris Criminal Court had estimated that these remarks constituted “an exhortation, sometimes implicit sometimes explicit, to discrimination and hatred towards the Muslim community and to its religion” and had condemned Eric Zemmour at 10,000 euros fine.
The Court of Appeal had, on September 8, 2021, rejected this judgment and relaxed the polemicist, a decision against which the public prosecutor’s office and anti -racist associations were formed by cassation. The appeal judges concluded that none of the disputed remarks were aimed at “all Africans, immigrants or Muslims, but only a fraction of these groups”, recalls the Court of Cassation in its judgment, consulted by the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Lesson de droit”
“Litigious remarks designate immigrants from Muslim confession from Africa, a group of people determined both by their origin and their religion, entering into the forecasts of the law”, decides the high court, which therefore cancels Relax.
“The Court of Cassation gives a real lesson in law to Eric Zemmour. She was not fooled by the truncated presentation of her remarks which had abused the court of appeal. The intervention of the polemicist during the” Convention of the right “must be envisaged generally and not in pieces,” reacted to AFP Patrice Spinosi, lawyer for the movement against racism and for the friendship between peoples (MRAP).
The association SOS-Raccisme “welcomes this decision and will once again be a civil party in the new trial that is coming,” she said in a press release. The Maison des Potes association also praised “a victory for all the anti-racist associations civil parties” in this case.
“We will face the new audience”, for his part declared to AFP the lawyer of Eric Zemmour, Olivier Pardo.