Paris (AFP)
The Paris prosecution announced on Saturday to AFP the opening of an investigation for "violence" and "threats" after the broadcast on social networks of an assault, by its alleged author, targeting the polemicist Eric Zemmour.
In this video, originally broadcast on the Snapchat network, a man films Eric Zemmour on Thursday walking alone, shopping bag in hand, in the streets of Paris. The man follows him for several tens of meters, insults him several times and threatens him.
Later, the man films himself facing the camera and claims to have spit on Mr. Zemmour.
The investigation was entrusted to the brigade for the suppression of delinquency against the person (BRDP), according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
Many political or media personalities denounced this aggression or gave their support to Mr. Zemmour, including Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa, President of the Republicans Christian Jacob, that of the Senate Gérard Larcher, but also some of his employers such as Cnews channel, or associations like Licra.
"Eric Zemmour is indifferent to fear. But as his lawyer I will not let anything go by," said Olivier Pardo on Friday on Twitter. Asked the same day by AFP, he had not responded.
Mr. Zemmour must also appear for "public insult of a racial nature" and "public provocation to racial hatred" after a charge against immigration and Islam during a "Right Convention" at the end of September in Paris. The trial, originally scheduled for January, has been postponed.
He caused the chain Cnews a formal notice in December for statements on Islam and the colonization of Algeria.
In mid-September, he was finally condemned, after the rejection of his cassation appeal, to a fine of 3,000 euros for provoking religious hatred after anti-Muslim remarks made this time in 2016, in the program "C à you "on France 5.
In the latter case, his lawyer appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.
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