Eric Zemmour fined 4,000 euros for homophobic insult

Eric Zemmour was sentenced, Thursday, September 28, at the Paris court, to a fine of 4,000 euros for homophobic insult. He declared, on October 15, 2019, on the CNews channel, that homosexual people had “enslaved” the state “for their benefit”. The Stop Homophobia association had filed a complaint against these comments made by the former far-right polemicist. “We are immediately appealing this decision”declared Olivier Pardo, the lawyer of the former presidential candidate, to AFP.

During a long debate with the essayist Nicolas Bouzou, Eric Zemmour declared: “We have the whims of a small minority which controls the State and which enslaves it for its own benefit and which will first disintegrate society, because we will have children without fathers and I have just tell you that it is a catastrophe and, secondly, who is going to make all the other French people pay for his whims.”

After a formal notice from the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA), the replay of the show was deleted from the channel’s website at the end of November 2019. The former far-right presidential candidate and current president of the Reconquest party has already been convicted twice for provoking hatred, for comments made in 2010 and 2016. Around ten trials await him by the end of 2023.