The Paris prosecutor's office quoted polemicist Eric Zemmour to appear on September 8 before the criminal court for "incitement to discrimination" and "racial insults" after comments about unaccompanied minor migrants, AFP learned from his lawyer on Friday. , confirming information from L'Obs.
On September 29, 2020, during a debate on the program “Face à l'Info” on Cnews devoted to the issue of unaccompanied minors after an attack in front of the former Charlie Hebdo premises, Eric Zemmour declared: “they do not 'have nothing to do here, they are thieves, they are murderers, they are rapists, that's all they are, they must be sent away and they must not even come ”.
Eric Zemmour already sentenced
Two days later, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation to examine whether these comments could be prosecuted before the criminal court.
A week earlier Eric Zemmour had been sentenced to a 10,000 euros fine, already for "provocation to racial hatred" and "racist public insults", for a diatribe on Islam and immigration during a political rally in the fall of 2019, broadcast live on LCI.
"I am surprised that it is still the public prosecutor's office which decides to sue my client, and not the associations", commented Mr. Olivier Pardo.
Showing serenity in the face of this new judicial deadline, Me Pardo underlined that "Eric Zemmour has been prosecuted 12 times and we have won 10 times: one conviction was not contested on appeal by choice and the other", for the speech on LCI, "is pending before the European Court of Human Rights" (ECHR) for comments in 2016 on Muslims.
For statements on Cnews, the Superior Audiovisual Council has already sanctioned the Canal + group's news channel with a fine of 200,000 euros, last March, for "incitement to hatred" and "to violence ".
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