The extreme right candidate in the presidential election considered on the public Senate antenna on Wednesday that the delinquency in France was due to “immigrants or children of immigrants”.
Le Monde with AFP
The President of SOS Racism, Dominique Sopo, announced On Twitter , Wednesday, January 26, that the Association would file a complaint against Eric Zemmour following the remarks held by the Far Right Candidate at the Public Senate Antenna.
Sentenced several times for incitement to hatred, the former journalist claimed, in the show hello to you !, That a systematic link existed between delinquency and immigration in France. “You really think that with zero immigration there will be no more delinquency?”, Interrogated Wednesday Journalist Oriane Mancini. “Ah, there will be almost no more, yes. That, I’m sure,” said the presidential candidate.
“That is to say, there are only immigrants who are offenders in this country?”, restarted him me Mancini. “Yes. In any case, immigrants or children of immigrants,” he said. “You know very well that all offenders are not immigrant or immigrant children,” says the journalist. “Yes. Bah if, excuse me, go see in prisons,” then responds to the reconquest candidate!.
A conviction on 17 January for provocation to hatred
Eric Zemmour has been sentenced several times for his remarks, including immigration. On January 17, he was sentenced to € 10,000 for provocation to hatred after qualifying migrant miners isolated from “thieves”, “murderers” and “rapists” on the CNEWS chain in 2020. He appealed.
However, this statement is not based on any official document, the ethnic statistics that would make it possible to isolate the “children of immigrants” being prohibited in France. The last annual report “insecurity and delinquency” of the Ministry of the Interior reflects an overreprepreation of persons of foreign nationality among the authors of certain offenses, but in no way they would be the only authors.
According to this document , 38% of the alleged authors of violent flights Without weapons are thus foreign nationality, in 2020, while only 7% of the population living in France is foreign. In addition, among those involved for burglaries, 66% are French nationality, 23% come from a country in Africa, and 8% of another European country, according to this same report.