On January 17, the far-right candidate was sentenced at first instance for “incitement to hatred” for having described unaccompanied migrant minors as “thieves”, “murderers” and “rapists”.
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Convicted several times for incitement to hatred, Eric Zemmour has once again attributed to immigrants and children of immigrants the responsibility for almost all delinquency in France, during an interview on Public Senate Wednesday, January 26. The president of SOS Racisme, Dominique Sopo, announced on Twitter the filing of a complaint against the far-right candidate.
New sequence of #racism at the house of #Zemmour. Sentenced for similar remarks in 2011, he will again have to deal with justice following the complaint that @SOS_Racism file today.
Clarification: there is no global correlation between number of detainees & weight of immigration https://t.co/rUHWuIHDgk— Dominique Sopo (@d_sopo) January 26, 2022
“There will be almost no more [de délinquance]“ in France if immigration is reduced to zero, he answered a question from the journalist from Public Sénat. “That is to say? Only immigrants are delinquents in this country?”, revived the interviewer. “Yes. In any case, immigrants or children of immigrants”, agreed Eric Zemmour. The former journalist says he wants to end family reunification and jus soli, deport “foreign offenders to their countries” and limit asylum to “a handful of people”.
“New sequence of racism at Zemmour. Sentenced for similar remarks in 2011, he will again have to deal with justice”, reacted Dominique Sopo on Twitter.
Eric Zemmour has been sentenced three times for “incitement to racial” or “religious” hatred, and other cases are in progress. He appealed the most recent of these convictions, which dates from January 17: the Paris Criminal Court had fined him 10,000 euros after describing unaccompanied migrant minors as “thieves”, “murderers” and “rapists”. “on the CNews channel in 2020. A decision he presents as an attack on freedom of expression.