The extreme right polemicist and presidential candidate was sentenced, Monday, for “provocation to hatred”, after his remarks of 2020 on insulated foreign miners.
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Eric Zemmour was sentenced for the third time, Monday, January 17, for “provocation to hatred and violence” and “public insults to a group of people because of their origin” after his remarks on isolated miners He had treated on November 29, 2020 on CNEWS of “thieves”, “rapists” and “assassins”. The Court of Paris sentenced him to a hundred days to 100 euros, 10,000 euros, and, jointlyarily with the director of the publication of the information chain continues, to pay 19 000 euros to the rights associations man.
The far-right polemist immediately announced that he was calling. He denounced in a statement “an ideological and stupid condemnation”, “the condemnation of a free spirit by a judicial system invaded by ideologues. Just very usual.”
During a conversation in “FACING INFO”, on CNEWS, with Christine Kelly on foreign minors, the columnist had said: “You, you think of these children who are suffering, I think of women who are violated by these people, to women who are murdered by these people, to the French who are too brutalized and traumatized by these people. “The presenter had objected to him,” with shyness and great restraint “, Note the Tribunal, that “all isolated miners are not necessarily rapidly”. He had replied, “As long as there will be one … do not let them go home, because it means a thief, a thief, an assassin who persecutes the French.”
“interpretation abusive “
The Paris Prosecutor was immediately seized by several associations and the Audiovisual Superior Council (CSA) had received more than 900 complaints. Thirteen associations and sixteen departmental councils – unaccompanied minors are taken care of by child welfare, managed by the departments – had consistent civil.
In questioned on January 14, 2021 by the police, Eric Zemmour had just a short statement and refused to answer the questions: “I am before you under the law Pleven of 1972 [who represses the incentive racial hatred and hears abolish] “; “Isolated miners are neither a nationality nor a race, nor a religion”, and “an abusive interpretation of my remarks made believe that I declared that all isolated minors were offenders, rapists and thieves, while I explained that if many were, all had to be repatriated in their country of origin “.
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