The complaint against Eric Zemmour from a tenant defense association declared inadmissible

A complaint for public insult from the National Housing Confederation (CNL) targeting Eric Zemmour was declared inadmissible on Friday October 20. The association is not “neither cited nor mentioned” in the words of the leader of the Reconquest party, judged the Paris judicial court, and “no personal and direct harm” cannot be invoked as a civil party.

In February 2022, on France Inter, the far-right polemicist, then a candidate in the presidential election, designated HLMs as “lands of Islamization” in France, which have become notably “dens of kebabs and veiled women”.

The CNL, the first organization representing tenants on the boards of directors of landlords in France, filed a complaint in April 2022 for “public insult towards a group of people because of their belonging to a specific religion”, considering the comments of Eric Zemmour as “insulting towards it and towards its members”. But the court declared that the association’s statutes did not expressly provide for “combat racism or assist victims of discrimination based on their national, ethnic, racial or religious origin”.