Paris (AFP)
The official account of polemicist Eric Zemmour on Instagram "has been deleted by mistake" and has since been restored, a spokesperson for the Facebook group, Instagram's parent company, told AFP on Friday.
"Eric Zemmour's account was deleted by mistake, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused. It has since been restored," said the same source.
Instagram also told AFP that Eric Zemmour had not broken any network rule and assured that he had taken measures to prevent such an incident from happening again.
The columnist of Le Figaro and polemicist star of the news channel CNews had rebelled the day before the deletion of his official Instagram account, denouncing a "censorship".
"The Gafam (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, editor's note) are engaged in a fierce struggle against the peoples who do not want to die. They can censor me, but they cannot silence a whole people #STOPCensure", s 'he exclaimed in a tweet on Thursday.
A petition had been launched by the association "Les Amis d'Eric Zemmour", approved at the beginning of July to finance a political party of the same name, to support the editorialist, repeatedly prosecuted for his comments, "against censorship and the government judges".
Eric Zemmour, who is credited with presidential ambition without his having publicly displayed it so far, is to be tried on September 8 for "incitement to discrimination" and "racial insults" after remarks about migrants unaccompanied minors, whom he described as "thieves", "murderers" and "rapists" on CNews in September 2020.
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