Polemicist Eric Zemmour is used to dealing with controversies and accusations. However, he now wears the costume of a presidential candidate, having entered the race for the supreme election. The reactionary essayist must therefore face severe criticism for his campaign video with dramatic and catastrophic overtones, in which many images appear for which he has not requested permission.
On November 30, 2021, Eric Zemmour announced his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election with a video clearly referring to General de Gaulle’s June 18 appeal. Presenting himself as the savior of France, the far-right polemicist has also used many images to illustrate his remarks on the state, presented as dramatic, of the country. A montage that angered many people and organizations. The presenter of Day-to-day Yann Barthès, the ex-companion of François Hollande Valérie Trierweiler, Aymeric Caron, la Gaumont or the Huffington Post and Barbara’s heirs have expressed their outrage and willingness to be dismissed from the message of a person convicted of incitement to hatred.
On the set of the show Day-to-day broadcast on the evening of the announcement of his candidacy, the presenter Yann Barthès was amused by the use of images without authorization: “And worse for the wallet, images of the Champions League …“He will give figures:”Our images department estimated the theft at more than 100,000 euros in archives, not counting TV films, reports or even drones. And again, 100,000 is if they had applied for the rights. Because now we will have to add the trials.“Yann Barthès’ team has specified on Twitter what it will do with the money:”We decided that the money we will receive from Zemmour will be donated to associations that help migrants.”
Journalist Valérie Trierweiler, former companion of François Hollande, was also outraged by this video, demanding to be removed from the messages: “Zemmour uses my image in his abject clip at the antipodes of my convictions. I demand the immediate withdrawal, by then my lawyer is studying the follow-up to be given. I am resolutely for universalist values, far from this call to hatred. “
The Gaumont cinema production and distribution company, many of whose film images are used in Eric Zemmour’s election message, is preparing to take legal action, as is the Huffington Post : “The leadership of the Huff Post was never contacted by the candidate’s campaign team to ask for the rights to reproduce these images. Rights that she would obviously never have granted him, in terms of illustrating statements of political propaganda.“
When Eric Zemmour defends the cultural greatness of the France of yesteryear, the candidate notably cites Barbara. But his nephew, Bernard Serf, protested against the use of the artist’s name in the columns of Telerama : “Je have just discovered with amazement that Barbara is used as a surety in the clip of a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic whose name I refuse to mention. Is it necessary to specify that this appropriation as revolting as scandalous, when one knows the work and the humanist commitments of the artist, was made without the agreement of the family of the person concerned?“
The intellectual Jacques Attali whose image also appears in this controversial video, chose him to relay the message of the musician Renaud Capuçon, husband of the journalist Laurence Ferrari: “Beethoven and the slow movement of his 7th Symphony to dramatize the words of a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. This is not the first time in history that extremes have used classical music. But it is worrying.“
Former sniper of the show We are not lying like Eric Zemmour, Aymeric Cayron appears in the montage of his best enemy. He is not offended to appear there but on the set of Do not touch My TV, he wanted to dismantle his speech which he qualifies as lying.
A list that could grow and which questions the making of this video two weeks ago. It echoes the amateurism criticized by Eric Zemmour’s team. A former relative, Pierre Meurin, had also expressed himself in The Express on the turn taken by the campaign of the reactionary activist, regretting his lack of connection to reality and the failures of those around him, led by the one who is presented as his campaign manager Sarah Knafo.
Asked by Gilles Bouleau during the 8 p.m. of TF1 on the day of the broadcast of this campaign, Eric Zemmour, nervous and annoyed, brushed aside the accusations of infringement of image rights, calling them “legal disputes“:”I don’t take care of that.“After his televised speech, he will launch a”asshole“to the presenter, noticed by journalists present like those of the Parisian. A particularly tense start to the campaign …
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Intervention of Eric Zemmour on the set of TF1 for the 8 p.m. television news, the same evening of his official declaration of candidacy for the 2022 presidential elections
Presidential candidate Eric Zemmour spoke to BFMTV after his intervention on TF1 during Gilles Bouleau’s newscast.
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