“I was condemned for having told the truth, by a draconian law“. Statement by Eric Zemmour on France Bleu this Thursday when the far-right presidential candidate was a guest of the program Ma France. He reconsidered his three convictions for “incitement to hatred”. “I have absolutely nothing to reproach myself for. You have to tell the French. What did I say to be condemned? I said: ‘most of the delinquents are Arab and black’. All French people know it and all French people think it. That’s why I was condemned“, did he declare
The candidate was invited to react to the Citizen Agenda, a major consultation organized by France Bleu to identify the priorities of the French at the time of the presidential election. The question of the exemplary nature of elected officials topped the concerns of citizens, in particular the fact of requiring elected officials to have a clean criminal record in order to hold public office. Nevertheless, Eric Zemmour said: “We have to stop with this history of criminal records. I have nothing to reproach myself. I am not a professional politician. I don’t live from politics“.
For exemplarity, against excessive transparency
The former journalist and polemicist recalled that he had “gave up a comfortable life to be a presidential candidate“because he believed”that France was in mortal danger and that it was going to undergo a great replacement of its population and its civilization“. In reference to his conviction in 2010 for having declared on television set that “most offenders are arab and black“, Eric Zemmour estimated to have been “misjudged“and that the judges were”instrumentalized by a law that has been perverted and by associations that use justice to settle political scores“.
The candidate of the Reconquest party! indicated feeling “quite exemplary in this story“. Regarding his position on the exemplary nature of elected officials to exercise a public function, Eric Zemmour estimated that there was “enough laws” on the subject. He pleads for a “honesty and exemplary“chosen ones but does not want one”excessive transparency“.”People have a right to privacy, not to be scrutinized all the time“, he added.