This Sunday, December 5, 2021, Éric Naulleau found himself in “Top trend” of the most commented subjects on Twitter. Several personalities and several Internet users were indeed surprised to see the columnist present at the front row of the gathering of Eric Zemmour, the same day in Villepinte. “I hope he takes the stage to speak. He knows the candidate well. He’s his friend. Amazing, isn’t it?” launched Jean-Michel Aphatie before Alexis Corbière, face of La France Insoumise, qualifies him as “pitiful”.
Faced with the attacks, Eric Naulleau responded on the social network by writing: “I prefer to do my work as a journalist in the front row of a meeting rather than to accomplish my work as a collaborator in the front row of an Islamist demonstration like Mr. Corbière and his friends “.
This Monday, December 6, 2021, Éric Naulleau was on the set of the show “Touche pas à mon poste” to react to this heated controversy. “It’s simple, I do my job as a political columnist. Eric Zemmour is a friend, I have said it a hundred times, I can say it again a hundred and first time, I will never renounce my friendship with Eric Zemmour” he said straight away. “It was a very important political meeting yesterday, we finally know the program of Eric Zemmour. He is one of the main contenders for the presidential election so I had every reason to be there.” he added. “I believe that Éric Zemmour’s team is aware of my friendship with the boss so they gave me a VIP seat” he explained of his presence in the front row of the meeting on Sunday.
Not enough to convince David Guirand, the spokesperson for La France insoumise who underlined the fact that Eric Naulleau now claims to have attended this meeting as a friend. “You lie, you are a political supporter of Eric Zemmour. You are of the extreme right but you try to make believe that you are of the left” he rebelled.
“You have an Arab in front of you, you are aggressive” he then declared, evoking the tensions between Éric Naulleau and Yassine Bellatar.
“He’s a thug! It was with a thug that I was aggressive, not with an Arab. I have no problem with Arabs.” concluded Éric Naulleau.
Eleanor de la Fontaine