The formula does not pass.

Taha Bouhafs filed a complaint on Friday for "public insult" against Eric Zemmour and against CNews, according to the text of this complaint.

The 23-year-old journalist criticizes the polemicist for having said of him on November 30 on the continuous news channel this: “Mr. Bouhafs, who is called a journalist and who is in fact an activist […].

You are not going to tell me that he is not a militant, an indigenous militant, an Islamist militant”.

According to this complaint with civil action filed Friday in Paris, qualifying Taha Bouhafs as an "Islamist militant" is not "trivial" in "the current context".

Zemmour sentenced several times

"These remarks can only refer to the wave of attacks committed in the weeks preceding the broadcast of the disputed program, with attacks in Paris, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and Nice, explains the lawyer's complaint of Taha Bouhafs, Me Arie Alimi.

The complaint also targets an official of CNews as director of publication of the channel's website.

In an opinion adopted in January, the Council for Journalistic Ethics and Mediation (CDJM), independent of the state, criticized this sequence.

Eric Zemmour is a pillar of the CNews news channel.

He has been convicted several times by the courts, including the last time for incitement to racial hatred at the end of September.

An investigation for “incitement to racial hatred”

In another case, he was also definitively sentenced to a fine of 3,000 euros for incitement to religious hatred after anti-Muslim remarks made in 2016. As early as 2011, he had been sentenced for incitement to hatred, after having declared to television that "most traffickers are black and Arab, that's how it is, it's a fact".

He has been under investigation in Paris since early October for “provoking racial hatred” and “racist public insults” after calling underage migrants “thieves”, “murderers” and “rapists” on CNews .

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