A few hours after formalizing his candidacy for the presidential election in a video posted on social networks, Eric Zemmour assured TF1 that he could rely on “200 to 250 sponsorship promises”. 500 are needed to be able to introduce themselves. Asked about the dramatic staging chosen to address voters, Eric Zemmour claimed a reference “overwhelming” to the appeal of June 18, launched by General de Gaulle.
Images used without authorization: “I do not take care of that”, sweeps Eric Zemmour
Punctuated by the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th symphony, the video with nostalgic accents, recorded two weeks ago, mixes scenes of violence in France, archives of the “country of Notre-Dame-de-Paris and the bell towers”, Concorde, Arc de Triomphe or film clips. Images used without authorization denounce several personalities, the cinema distributor Gaumont and several media who demand the withdrawal of extracts, or even consider possible prosecution. “The quarrels of jurists must interest jurists. Me, I do not take care of that “, opposed Éric Zemmour.
The far-right candidate was also questioned about his middle finger addressed to a woman in Marseille on Saturday. He again conceded “a not very elegant gesture”. “But in any case that corresponded well to the exasperation of this crazy day. I was harassed for 24 hours”, he asserted.
Tensions with Gilles Bouleau
At the end of the televised interview, Eric Zemmour castigated a “prosecutor’s interview”, a “intellectual swindle “, reproaching journalist Gilles Bouleau for having“wanted to be smart”. “It was an interview with a prosecutor. In front of the others, he (Gilles Bouleau) disappears, politely, humbly, sometimes in a larval way. With me, he revealed himself to be a pugnacious prosecutor, in bad faith, to me. taking sentences from my book out of context “, the far-right polemicist was exasperated after leaving the channel, according to images broadcast by CNews and BFMTV.
“There was misdemeanor, there was even intellectual fraud, Mr. Bouleau did not do his job, he wanted to be smart in front of his colleagues”, he continued. According to an AFP photographer, who witnessed the scene, Eric Zemmour was angry with the presenter of the TF1 JT at the exit of the set.
The candidate will hold his first meeting on Sunday at the Zénith in Paris.