Paris (AFP)

Referrals to the CSA, petition of SOS Racism, eddy in LCI and malaise in Figaro: with his violent charge against Islam and immigrants "colonizers" Saturday, live on television, Eric Zemmour has again set fire to the powders .

"All our problems aggravated by immigration are aggravated by Islam," said Eric Zemmour during a "convention right" organized in Paris by the relatives of the former far-right MP Marion Maréchal .

The one who was condemned very recently for provocation to religious hatred also quoted the writer Renaud Camus, theoretician of the "great replacement" of the white and Christian population by a Muslim and ironic immigrant population on the clothes of the spokesman of the Sibeth Ndiaye government, "summit of the French distinction".

After the broadcast of this speech, fully broadcast on LCI (TF1 news channel), the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA) received "nearly 400" referrals.

The Society of Journalists (SDJ) du Figaro, one of the employers of the polemicist with RTL and Paris Première, called his direction Monday in a letter: "the SDJ wonders about the position, very convenient, of annuitant of the controversy which is his: employee of the Figaro, he releases himself without restraint, arguing that it does not look at his employers and colleagues ".

"The journalists of Le Figaro, in their vast majority, do not want to be associated with his provocations.The LDS urges the editorial department to put an end to this ambiguous situation," says the letter obtained by AFP.

Solicited by AFP, the direction of Figaro did not follow up.

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"The # Laicité, #Nation, #Republic in danger in the face of the trivialization of xenophobic hate speech and anti-Muslim racism, the political and social identity divide sought is an extremist dangerous project for the citizenship of the French democracy" , reacted on his side on Twitter the Great Mosque of Paris.

The statements of the polemicist aroused an uproar within the government, Prime Minister Philippe Philippe condemning speeches "nauseating and deeply contrary to the idea we have of France and the Republic."

For its part, the Paris prosecutor's office is studying the possibility of launching an investigation, a judicial source.

Former President Francois Hollande lamented too much "porosity" of the media towards the extreme right and the arguments relayed by the polemicist.

"Éric Zemmour works in media outlets, and not just anybody, if you think he's saying things that go all the way and that go through all the dikes, there's a time when you have to take responsibilities, "he said on France Inter.

LCI recognized as early as Sunday an "error of appreciation" after the live broadcast of the speech. "Broadcasting the speech in the state was not the appropriate format for our channel," according to the direction of the channel. "There was a contradiction and deconstruction of Eric Zemmour's words, but it was after the fact".

The LCI LDS itself has condemned this broadcast on Twitter.

The prospect of CNews hiring the polemicist, announced by some media but unconfirmed by the news channel Canal +, has also fueled the fire.

"Entrusting a show to Eric Zemmour is putting him in a position of legitimacy, so we ask CNews to give up establishing a relationship with Eric Zemmour because hatred, never, should become a business", deplores SOS Racism in a petition launched Monday and signed by more than 1,800 people.

The author of the "French Suicide", 61 years, would be entrusted a daily from 19 to 20H on CNews (ex-iTele), where he had officiated from 2003 to 2014, according to the website Les Jours.

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