Eight women accuse Éric Zemmour of sexual violence

Héloïse Goy 10:45 a.m., March 09, 2022, modified at 10:45 a.m., March 09, 2022

They are eight.

Eight to accuse the presidential candidate, Éric Zemmour, of sexual assault.

This is revealed by a video survey published by the Mediapart news site.

Most of them speak publicly for the first time.

All accuse the former polemicist of inappropriate behavior and sexual assault.

These alleged facts would have taken place between 1999 and 2019, that is to say in the period when the current candidate was a journalist.

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“Very raw proposals”

Some of these women agreed to testify with their faces uncovered in front of the camera of Mediapart journalists who conducted an investigation lasting several months.

Among them, several worked at

as interns alongside Éric Zemmour.

Séverine denounces, for example, facts that would have happened in 1999 in the elevator, after "very raw proposals for sexual relations" that she would have expressly refused.

"There aren't many floors, but by the time the elevator gets to its floor, he takes me with his hands, he blocks me against the wall of the elevator and he forcefully kisses me on the mouth,” she says.

"Then he releases me, he walks away, very quickly the elevator stops and he goes out, and I barely have time to realize what happened."

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Among the other women who testify, former employees of I-Télé, a hostess and a make-up artist ensure that at the time, the polemicist had inappropriate gestures such as hands on the buttocks.

According to information from Mediapart, justice has not taken up the facts denounced by these women.

Contacted to react to these accusations, Éric Zemmour did not wish to answer questions from the news site.