INTERVIEW
Should Eric Zemmour be persona non grata in the media? The question continues to arise as the journalist and essayist, who now intervenes daily on CNews, was finally sentenced last September for provoking hatred against Muslims, eight years after a first conviction of discrimination. racial.
"I certainly would not have invited him"
Asked if she would have invited Eric Zemmour in the program 7 out of 7 and if it was necessary to continue to give him a media platform, Anne Sinclair, who was in Culture media , Thursday morning, on Europe 1, was categorical . "The problem does not arise, because we invite who we want to invite. (...) We also have the right not to invite and I certainly would not have invited," said the reporter.
The controversy surrounding Éric Zemmour's return to the airwaves is all the more acute as LCI, the TF1 group's news channel, decided to broadcast the writer's entire speech at the "Paris Convention". the right". An intervention considered particularly violent, especially towards Islam, by many observers. "He does not represent anything, he is neither a historian nor a specialist," says Anne Sinclair, "but he is a polemicist who has the right to go where he is invited," she says.