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

A complaint for public insult from the National Housing Confederation (CNL) against Eric Zemmour was declared inadmissible on Friday October 20. The association is not “neither cited nor mentioned” in the remarks of the polemicist, 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, had filed a complaint for “public insult towards a group of people because of their belonging to a specific religion” in April 2022, 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”.