The trial of Eric Zemmour, who was to be tried on Wednesday for his virulent charge against immigration and Islam at a right-wing convention in late September in Paris, was postponed to May 13. The polemicist is summoned to appear by the Paris public prosecutor's office for "public insult of a racial nature" and "public provocation to racial hatred", after a speech delivered on September 28 at a meeting organized by relatives of the ex- extreme right deputy Marion Maréchal.
On Wednesday, Eric Zemmour's lawyer, Olivier Pardo, made a request for dismissal within the framework of the lawyers' strike movement against the pension reform, to which the court granted. The association La Maison des potes, civil party, also asked for a referral so that Eric Zemmour be judged at the same time as the chain LCI, which had broadcast his speech live. The prosecution does not prosecute the chain, but the anti-discrimination association itself called LCI to appear.
An outcry within the political class
In the six extracts from the speech for which Eric Zemmour is prosecuted, he attacked immigrant "colonizers" and an "Islamization of the street". "The caïds and their gangs join forces with the imam to bring order to the streets and to consciences, according to the old alliance of the saber and the brush, in this case, the kalach and the djellaba", said he especially.
The speech had caused an uproar within the political class but also in the media, in particular those for which the polemicist worked. The Paris prosecutor's office had quickly opened an investigation, entrusted to the Brigade for the Suppression of Crime against the Person (BRDP). "I maintain" and "I do not insult anyone," assured Eric Zemmour a few days later.
Zemmour recruited by CNews
At the time, the LCI Journalists' Society condemned the broadcast of the live speech and its management admitted an "error of assessment". A month later, the Superior council of audio-visual (CSA) had "firmly warned" the chain for this episode.
Despite intense controversy, CNews then recruited Eric Zemmour for a new program. Several new statements have since aroused indignation, pushing the chain to no longer broadcast the program live but on a delayed basis. At the beginning of December, the CSA also put in residence the chain to respect its obligations in particular in terms of incitement to hatred and violence.
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