Eric Zemmour sentenced for complicity in defamation against Danièle Obono

The president of Reconquest once again condemned by the courts. Eric Zemmour was found guilty by the Paris criminal court on Wednesday February 7 of complicity in public defamation against MP Danièle Obono (La France insoumise). The former far-right presidential candidate is sentenced to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros and will have to pay 1,000 euros to the parliamentarian in damages.

Jean-Christophe Thiery,he publishing director of CNews, the channel on which the defamatory remarks against Danièle Obono were broadcast, was for his part found guilty of public defamation and sentenced to the same sentence as Eric Zemmour.

During the program “Face à l’info” in August 2020, hosted by the former journalist, the latter attacked Danièle Obono, caricatured as a slave a few days before the broadcast by the weekly far right Current values. The polemicist had accused the parliamentarian “to refuse to say ‘Long live France’ on television”, “to organize meetings prohibited to whites” And “to say all his love for Mohamed Merah, who kills Jewish children”.

For the court, there is no “factual basis” to corroborate Eric Zemmour’s assertions. “The defendants will therefore not be able to benefit from the excuse of good faith”, underlined the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial court. The court also ordered CNews to remove the video from the broadcast within 15 days of the date the court’s decision becomes final.