While Eric Zemmour held a signing session in Brest, tensions erupted with opponents of the far right. A hotel window was smashed, and a man was slightly injured. Two people were arrested, said the sub-prefecture.
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Tensions took place on Saturday in Brest near a hotel where the polemicist and politician Eric Zemmour was holding a signing session, according to information from France Bleu Breizh Izel. A window in the hotel was smashed, and a man was slightly injured.
Around 3 p.m., a demonstration against the long-planned immigration law, declared in the prefecture, took place on Place de la Liberté, in the center of Brest, not far from the Oceania hotel, where Eric Zemmour’s signing session for his last book I didn’t say my last word was planned. A few demonstrators gathered in front of the hotel.
Antifa collectives joined them at the gates of the hotel. About 250 people positioned themselves in front of the establishment, according to the journalist from France Bleu Breizh Izel, present on the spot. This is where the situation escalated. Invectives from both sides were launched, insults and anti-Zemmour slogans.
Tear gas was fired
Antifa activists attempted to enter the hotel to prevent the book signing from taking place. Blows were exchanged with supporters of Eric Zemmour. Tear gas was fired. A window in the hotel was broken, cans and other projectiles were thrown at people who came to the dedication as well as inside the hotel. A person who came to see the polemicist was slightly injured in the brow bone, according to France Bleu Breizh Izel.
The CRS positioned a little further to supervise the authorized demonstration intervened fairly quickly. A police cordon blocked the entrance to the hotel. The antifa collectives then dispersed. Calm then returned. The signing session was able to resume and Eric Zemmour was applauded by his supporters. Between 50 and 100 people were able to enter to attend.
A few minutes later, the demonstration against the immigration law, the far right and racism, in which unions participated, including the CGT and Sud Solidaires, as well as parties from Nupes, also dispersed calmly.
Two people, suspected of having thrown a barrier on a window of the hotel were arrested and placed in police custody announces the sub-prefecture.