She calls him “puppet”. The socialist candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Anne Hidalgo, explained on Sunday October 30 that she did not wish to debate with Éric Zemmour, “a negationist” and “a racist”, wondering moreover that there is no “demonstrations” against the polemicist.
“I call for this presidential election to be a real presidential election with a real debate, not a debate on this candidacy of a puppet”, was carried away by the mayor of Paris in the program “Le Grand Jury” of LCI / RTL /Le Figaro.
I do not argue with a negationist, I do not argue with a racist and I do not argue with that person who is trampling on and walking completely, trampling on what is the history of our country, which is its greatness and what its values are.
Anne Hidalgoduring the program “Le Grand Jury” of LCI / RTL / “Le Figaro”
However, if Eric Zemmour became a presidential candidate and if a debate was organized between all the contenders, the PS candidate would participate, she said. “But (not) a debate, there, in the months of installing this campaign with this person.”
“A few years ago, remarks like those of Zemmour would have been pronounced on an antenna, there would have been demonstrations”, she said again, believing that “Mr. Zemmour strikes untruths, messages of hatred, racist messages, anti-Semitic messages”.
No one goes in the street to demonstrate (while he) explains to you that General de Gaulle and Pétain are the same thing … And there is not a demonstration in the streets of our cities, you believe that Is that a good country?
Anne Hidalgoduring the program “Le Grand Jury” of LCI / RTL / “Le Figaro”
Eric Zemmour has been prosecuted several times for his statements. He has been released several times, but also twice convicted of incitement to racial discrimination in 2011, and of incitement to hatred against Muslims in 2018.