While Eric Zemmour triggered an outcry last week over his comments about unaccompanied minors, it is for health reasons that the journalist, convicted of inciting racial hatred, was removed from the sets of CNews and Paris Première this Wednesday.

"Good evening to Eric Zemmour who is exceptionally a bit far away, but close at the same time."

This is how Christine Kelly announced Wednesday in 

Face à l'Info that

Eric Zemmour would participate in the remote show.

A distance from the CNews plateau, therefore, but also from Paris Première, where the polemicist holds a duet program with Éric Naulleau.

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Suspicion of Covid-19

If the two shows have come to this, it is because of a suspicion of Covid-19.

Eric Zemmour is indeed feverish, according to

Le Parisien

.

All precautions have been taken so that it does not contaminate those around it.

A PCR test was carried out on the morning of Wednesday.

While waiting for the result, the entire

Face à l'Info team

 is in quarantine, and tests are being organized on the side of the

Zemmour and Naulleau teams

.

For this last show on Paris Première, it is in the duplex of a dressing room that Eric Zemmour took part in the show, recorded earlier in the day on Wednesday.

On CNews, he was live from an isolated office on the network's premises, giving his opinion on the news.

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An expected estrangement ... but for another reason

No one hoped that the polemicist would be removed from the TV shows, obviously for a completely different reason.

The two channels did not crack down following Eric Zemmour's remarks on isolated migrants.

The journalist, already convicted of insults and incitement to hatred, has in fact been the subject of several new complaints since last week.