"Mediapart wants to make a hit on the day of the day (of rights, editor's note) of the woman by recycling testimonies already released last year. Shabby five weeks before the first round", reacted the entourage of the extreme candidate presidential right.
For the first two articles in 2021, the newspaper has collected testimonies from women who "accused" Eric Zemmour of "inappropriate behavior and sexual assault" and some of whom spoke in front of the camera in a 36-minute video investigation released on Tuesday.
Having become an engineer, Claire recounts a brief internship, at the age of 18, at Le Figaro in 2002. Called to help the editorialist with a computer problem, "I feel his hand on my back going back and forth from bottom to top", affirms- she.
Pascale Sauvage, a former colleague of Eric Zemmour at Le Figaro, reports having spoken to the former journalist about it.
"I told him, you don't touch the intern".
"He said to me: + If now we can no longer flirt with trainees. Trainees are still made to make pipes and coffee +. He told me that, I'm sure", affirms- she.
Eric Zemmour declined to comment to Mediapart.
Another former intern, Séverine, accused her, in 1999, of "very raw proposals for sexual relations" and of having "blocked her against the wall of the elevator and forcibly kissed her on the mouth".
Among the other testimonies, Gaëlle Lenfant, former head of women's rights for the Socialist Party (PS) also accuses the former columnist of having "kissed her by force" during a PS summer school in La Rochelle at the start. of the 2000s.
She spoke on April 24, 2021 on Facebook about it.
"I found myself so flabbergasted that I could do nothing but push him away and run away," said Gaëlle Lenfant, then a socialist "young activist".
On December 9, 2021 on France 2, when asked about previous Mediapart articles, Eric Zemmour felt that he "did not" have "to answer. I'm not talking about my private life, these women accuse me, without any proof, it's word against word."
No complaints have been announced.
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