The far -right polemicist was sentenced to 4,000 euros fine for racist insult.
Eric Zemmour still condemned by justice. The far -right polemicist was found guilty, Thursday, January 12, of an insult of a racist nature for having qualified in 2018 the first name of the former columnist of the Canal+ Hapsatou Sy group as “insult to France”.
The president of reconquest !, Absent during the judgment, was sentenced to a fine of 4,000 euros, 3,000 euros in damages and 2,000 euros in lawyers. His lawyer, M e
é> Olivier Pardo, immediately announced to appeal “Faced with this decision which has no legal meaning”.
“It is a great satisfaction, on the contrary estimated M e Antoine Vey, lawyer of Hapsatou Sy, the court gave us entirely right.” Behind the fight that the entrepreneur And animator, “there is probably the recognition of an entire tranche of the French population”, he added.
During the hearing, on November 4, the prosecutor had requested a hundred days amendes at 200 euros, or 20,000 euros, which can turn into imprisonment in the event of non-payment.
definitively Condemned for provocation to religious hatred
The words in question had been made during the public recording of the Thierry Ardisson program “Les Terriens du Dimanche” in September 2018, on C8. The production company had cut off the extract. The columnist had broadcast on social networks a video filmed by a makeup artist containing this passage cut and filed complaint with constitution of civil party.
The sequence as broadcast on C8 takes place as follows: Hapsatou Sy recalls his first name to Eric Zemmour, who retorts: “Your mother was wrong?” “And you would like me what?”, Rebounds the columnist . “Corinne”, replied the guest. In the following face-to-face, cut to the editing, the columnist declares: “What you just said is an insult to France”. “Mademoiselle is your first name that is an insult to France,” says Eric Zemmour in return.
The court stressed that the words were “outrageous” towards M me sy “as soon as they mean that his first name, element of his personality (…) would be the expression of a Mark of disrespect, contempt towards France and would undermine its dignity “. “Even if they present a link with the initial debate [these words] are clearly detached from the latter from the moment they degenerate into a strictly personal attack, of a discriminating nature”, according to the jurisdiction.
Eric Zemmour had been definitively sentenced to a fine of 3,000 euros for provocation to religious hatred in 2016. It is targeted by numerous procedures. In 2023, he must be warned in eight trials in Paris after complaints aimed at remarks he made.