Between two controversial statements – the last on the fate of Ukrainian refugees victims of the war who, according to him, should stay in Poland rather than come to France – Eric Zemmour answered the newspaper’s questions The chained Duckwhich reveals in its paper edition of Wednesday March 2, 2022, that he would have “forgotten” twice to pay for his shopping in a Parisian establishment.
As of Tuesday evening, after the online publication of the article by Duckthe reactions were not long in coming… And for good reason: the daily reports thatEric Zemmour would have left Sunday February 27 from the automatic cash register of the Great Grocery from Cheapa luxury food establishment located in the chic 7th arrondissement of Paris, without paying the bill. A total of 38.80 euros that the former TV columnist who became a candidate for the presidential election – he obtained his famous 500 sponsorships unlike Christiane Taubira forced to give up – had therefore not paid. What he readily admitted, he who was recognized thanks to the store’s video surveillance cameras, consulted the same evening after a “hole in the box“.
“There are no incidents. It is pointless. I simply forgot to pay. I left like this. The next day, one of the police officers in charge of my security went to pay 38 euros and something. I reimbursed my policeman by giving him 40 euros and I told him to keep the change“, he reacted to the Duck to quickly put an end to the slightest controversy.
Eric Zemmour, regularly the victim of insults, spitting or death threats, was therefore able to count on a police officer to go and pay his own bill. What did not fail to denounce several shocked Internet users, including the former environmental minister Cécile Duflot. “Ok I must be old fashioned but what shocks me in the article in Le Canard enchaîné sur Z is not to “forget” to pay for his groceries, it is to send his security officer to settle the store . They are police officers in charge of his protection, not assistants to do everything!“, she wrote on Twitter.
The story could end there but the chained duck ensures that this incident would not be isolated! Indeed, Eric Zemmour – yet a millionaire thanks to his books and his contracts in the media – would have already left the Great Grocery without paying. “A management representative claims otherwise; according to him, at the end of last year, the far-right candidate had already left without paying the automatic cash register (…) He had been stopped dead by a security guard and forced to pay the bill“, we read.