Who said that justice was long in France? The Paris Criminal Court did not take long. Éric Zemmour is summoned on 22 January 2020 for the remarks he made at the end of September at the "Convention of the Right", organized by relatives of former far-right MP Marion Maréchal, and broadcast live on LCI. The journalist is summoned by the Paris prosecutor's office for "racial public insult" and "public provocation to racial hatred," the source said.
An intervention that was controversial
Eric Zemmour will have to answer the words pronounced on September 28th during this "Convention of the Right". In his speech, broadcast in full and live on LCI, he attacked, among others, immigrants "colonizers" and "Islamization of the street". "In France, as in all Europe, all our problems are aggravated - I do not say created - by immigration: school, housing, unemployment, social deficits, public debt, public order, prisons, professional qualifications, emergency hospitals, drugs ... And all our problems aggravated by immigration are aggravated by Islam, "said Eric Zemmour.
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A few days after the outcry aroused by his remarks, the Paris prosecutor had announced the opening of an investigation. Eric Zemmour risks a year in prison and 45,000 euros fine. In mid-September, he was finally sentenced, after the dismissal of his cassation appeal, to a fine of € 3,000 for provoking religious hatred after anti-Muslim remarks, this time in 2016.