Antoine Diers, spokesperson for the Reconquête party and deputy director of campaign strategy for Éric Zemmour, does not think that this conviction following comments made on the Cnews channel “is a handicap” for the candidate in the presidential campaign. .
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“We are quite stunned, we were convinced that Éric Zemmour would be released because the reason does not correspond to the facts“, reacted Monday January 17 on franceinfo Antoine Diers, spokesman for the Reconquest party and deputy director of campaign strategy for the far-right candidate. Éric Zemmour was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros by the criminal court. His lawyer decided to appeal this judgment, rendered following remarks made on the Cnews channel Éric Zemmour had described unaccompanied minor migrants as “thieves”, “murderers” and of “rapists”.
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“Eric Zemmour is convicted of complicity in incitement to racial hatred. Are unaccompanied minors therefore a race?”, wondered Antoine Diers. “It is absolutely incoherent. We are once again denouncing a political condemnation in the middle of the campaign. Éric Zemmour obviously did not have any provocation to racial hatred. He denounces an objective fact that a large number of unaccompanied minors are involved in delinquency”, he justified.
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“For us, insists the spokesperson for the Reconquête party and deputy director of campaign strategy for Éric Zemmour, there are terrible facts in our country. There is a situation where we have illegal immigrants, who are allowed to act with virtual impunity, and Éric Zemmour wanted to denounce this. Those who denounce what is not working in our country find themselves condemned by justice”, regretted the deputy director of campaign strategy Eric Zemmour.
This condemnation of Éric Zemmour, “I don’t think it’s a handicap, because Éric Zemmour is the candidate for reality, the candidate for real life, a candidate for French people who, on a daily basis, realize that Éric Zemmour talks about real issues” .