The facts go back long before he was an official candidate for the presidency of the Republic. That day, Éric Zemmour was still just a simple polemicist, writer and columnist. Invited on the set of Thierry Ardisson in the program “Les Terriens du dimanche!”, As part of the promotion of one of his works, he attacks the columnist Hapsatou Sy, or rather his first name. “Mademoiselle… It’s your first name that is an insult to France“, he launches, before continuing: “France is not a virgin land. It is a land with a history, with a past. And the first names embody the history of France.“The one who won 7% of the vote in the first round of the last presidential election would then have offered to be renamed “Corinne”. for racial slurs.
While the leader of the “Reconquest” party is to be tried this Friday, November 4, the columnist confided in our colleagues from Parisian. She explains in particular how this clash ruined her life. “Because this “Corinne” has pursued me every day of my life since 2018, including during his presidential campaign where I was taken as an example as soon as it was a question of Christian first names, and even in the most intimate“, she explains.
Before saying:The day I gave birth to my second child, in November 2019, the anesthesiologist took the liberty of playing a joke on me by calling me Corinne. He seemed to find it funny. I cut it short and asked that he no longer take care of me. These jokes, I have also heard them many times in work meetings, in the street, on social networks and even on a Wikipedia file. In fact, it was the extreme right and the horde of supporters of Éric Zemmour who renamed me Corinne during these four years, under the impetus of their “guru”. I also received hate messages from them, envelopes containing excrement, etc. It’s incredibly violent.”
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