Paris (AFP)
Eric Zemmour, in the midst of a controversy after a violent anti-immigration and anti-Islam speech, will be on Monday on CNews, the news channel of Canal +, for a daily broadcast, according to an information site Les Jours .
The channel did not want to comment on this information but an internal source confirmed to AFP and the interested confirmed his arrival at the Parisian.
According to Les Jours, this talk show will be presented by Christine Kelly, a former CSA and LCI, today in Cyril Hanouna's band on C8, and will put Eric Zemmour against an opponent from Monday to Thursday from 19H to 20H .
At CNews where the subject was discussed Thursday morning, according to the internal source, the discussions were lively between the director Serge Nedjar, close to Vincent Bolloré, who supports the arrival of the polemicist and the rest of the editorial staff.
The question of his arrival on the news channel of the group owned by Vincent Bolloré was pending since the polemicist, sentenced for provocation to religious hatred in mid-September, is the subject of a new investigation for "public provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence "after his speech at a meeting organized by the relatives of former right-wing MEP Marion Maréchal.
The speech, where Eric Zemmour attacked the "colonizing" immigrants and quoted the writer Renaud Camus, theoretician of the "great replacement" of the white and Christian population by a Muslim immigrant population, provoked an uproar in the political world , associative and in the media.
Among his employers, RTL has distanced himself, Paris Première, where he hosts the show "Zemmour and Naulleau" summoned him but continues his show and Le Figaro also let him know his reprobation without stopping his collaboration.
On Cnews, it will be a homecoming for Eric Zemmour who had participated in a similar debate program on iTélé (former name of CNews) from 2003 to 2014, arrested after a controversy over anti-Muslim remarks in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Will be.
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