Eric Zemmour intends to assign "Closer" for "violation of privacy"

"He will be a dad in 2022", headlines

this week.

In One, Eric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo.

Lawyers for the far-right polemicist have announced their intention to sue the magazine, which claims in its issue published Friday that his advisor Sarah Knafo is expecting a child from him, after a failure Thursday to ban the publication of the magazine people.

"The magazine

has just published, against all the rules of journalistic ethics, an article seriously undermining the privacy and image rights of Mr. Eric Zemmour and Mrs. Sarah Knafo", write in a press release Me Olivier Pardo and Laurence Dauxin-Nedelec, lawyers for the putative presidential candidate, as well as Me Simon Olivennes, adviser to Sarah Knafo.

“Our customers immediately take legal action,” they add.

Me Pardo told AFP that he would file "a summons for violation of privacy on Monday or Tuesday".

“Whatever happens, always and everywhere, I will jealously, fiercely defend my privacy and that of my loved ones.

Public life, yes.

Voyeurism, no.

Sorry for the perverts, ”said Eric Zemmour in a tweet.

An attempt to ban the publication of the number

In its issue published on Friday, the magazine displays a photo of the polemicist walking in the street, arm in arm with his advisor.

Thursday, Sarah Knafo's lawyer had assigned

in summary proceedings to urgently obtain the ban of this number, information revealed by

.

But this request was ruled inadmissible by the court, which considered that Sarah Knafo had presented "no objective evidence relating to the article and its content" allowing "to establish the publication in the magazine

to be published on 26 November 2021 of an article which would undermine the respect due to the privacy of the applicant's private life ”, with the exception of an SMS warning her of the publication of this number, according to the judgment consulted by AFP .

In mid-October, Eric Zemmour had already sued the magazines

,

and

for invasion of privacy.

He assigned in particular

, which made its Une at the end of September on "his very close advisor" Sarah Knafo, and

, for photos and a text on the proximity between the two.

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