This December 5, 2021, Eric Zemmour held his first meeting as a candidate for the presidential election of 2022. It was held, not at the Zénith in Paris as was discussed last month, but finally in Villepinte in Seine-Saint-Denis. The former PAF polemicist was greeted by a cheering crowd of 10,000 people according to AFP, during an event that was enamelled by several incidents.
Before a series of supportive interventions in the gallery, the journalists came to take the temperature were quickly boo, in particular the team of Day-to-day, the TMC show presented by Yann Barthès, one of the personalities targeted in Eric Zemmour’s controversial campaign video. We could thus hear “everyone hates Day-to-day“, or even “band solds “. Security had to intervene to protect the reporters taken to task.”Security overreacted. They came back. There was no violence“, assures the candidate’s communication team.
When Eric Zemmour arrives around 5.30 p.m. in the Villepinte exhibition center, an individual grabbed him, indicates AFP, without defining whether it is an opponent. He was quickly exfiltrated. The candidate was reportedly injured in the wrist and saw himself prescribed by a doctor 9 days of ITT, AFP learned from his team. A complaint is being considered according to its spokesperson Antoine Diers. Then it is at the beginning of the speech that violence breaks out. About ten of SOS Racism activists, hidden from the public, unveil clothes to say “no to racism“. In the video broadcast by the association or by Brut.fr and BFMTV, we see them immediately receiving blows and being targeted by chairs. Several chases take place at the back of the room to exfiltrate them, in great confusion. Some participants of the meeting hide their faces, visibly determined to do battle. The situation returns to calm after ten minutes. A member of the security evokes “some antifa activists“exfiltrators, reproaching them for wanting to stir up trouble.