Paris (AFP)

Eric Zemmour, in the midst of a controversy after a violent anti-immigration and anti-Islam speech, will be well on CNews news channel on Monday, in a new daily show that "will not be a tribune without filter "ensures the management of the Canal + group.

"The editorialist Eric Zemmour will join CNews from Monday, as part of a new show + Face à l'info +, from 19:00 to 20:00, orchestrated by Christine Kelly from Monday to Thursday," said AFP Gerald -Brice Viret, general manager of the Canal + Group's antennas, confirming information from Les Jours.

The question of his arrival on the news channel of the group owned by Vincent Bolloré was pending since the polemicist, sentenced for provocation to religious hatred in mid-September, is the subject of a new investigation for "public provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence "after his speech at a meeting organized by the relatives of former right-wing MEP Marion Maréchal.

The speech -retransmitted on LCI-, where Eric Zemmour attacked the immigrants "colonizers", and took over the theory of the "great replacement" of the writer Renaud Camus, caused an uproar in the political world , associative and in the media.

"We do not offer a platform without filter or even a niche of free expression, it's really a face to face with strong personalities," says the leader of Canal +. "Eric Zemmour will not be the voice of CNews, it will be one of the votes on CNews," he says.

With this arrival, the emission of Laurence Ferrari is advanced from 19H00 to 17H00. Christine Kelly, a former CSA and LCI today in the band of Cyril Hanouna on C8 will no longer be in Touch not to my post but will remain in Balance ton post.

In the first part of the show will debate four editorialists: Eric Revel, Eric Riedmatten, Marc Menant and Eric Zemmour, then in a second part, Christine Kelly "will orchestrate a Face to Face in which a guest brings the contradiction to Eric Zemmour on the main fact of the news of the day ", he explains, stating that" everyone will be welcome to discuss with Eric Zemmour ".

- No political calendar -

After the speech at the end of September, RTL distanced itself from Eric Zemmour. Paris Première, where he hosts the show "Zemmour and Naulleau" summoned but continues his show and Le Figaro also told him his reprobation without stopping his collaboration.

Advertisers, contacted on Twitter by the collective "Sleeping Giants", have indicated that they would buy more spots during "Zemmour and Naulleau": Nutella, Maaf, Maif, Monabanq, Groupama, the PSA group. Retaliation that could affect CNews.

On CNews, it will be a homecoming for Eric Zemmour who had participated in a similar debate program on iTele (former name of CNews) from 2003 to 2014, arrested after a controversy over anti-Muslim remarks in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

"We have obtained guarantees from Mr. Zemmour including the fact that he is not there with a political calendar, he is there as an editorialist with no electoral ambition, it is very important for us," he said. insured Gérald-Brice Viret.

"If he is a candidate, Serge Nedjar (boss of the chain, Ed) will have at any time the possibility of suspending the antenna," he says.

The arrival of the polemicist was a subject of tension internally but according to Le Canard chained, it is Vincent Bolloré himself who wanted his hiring.

Anticipating his arrival on CNews "at a prime time that will offer him an unexpected sound box", the Interministerial Delegation to the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hate (Dilcrah) asked Wednesday the CSA " to call answers at the height of the stakes ".

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