Europe 1 with AFP 2:30 p.m., March 30, 2022

After the controversy of "Macron assassin" chanted during his big meeting at Trocadéro, the ex-journalist Eric Zemmour accused the media and his opponents of burying the truth" of "Islamization" and "violence in our streets ". According to the candidate, it is because the latter do not support the truth that he denounces that they pretend to retain only this controversy. 

Three days after the "Macron assassin" chanted by part of the crowd at his meeting at Trocadéro, Eric Zemmour on Wednesday accused the "media" and his "opponents" of "frenziedly burying the truth" of "Islamization" and the "violence in our streets".

"The truth is beyond them, those who have spent their lives lying"

"The media and my adversaries pretended to remember only one word, 'murderer', launched without thinking by the most troubled, the most wounded, the most revolted among us at the mention of the victims of terrorism. That's it which says a lot about the censorship of which France is the victim", writes the far-right candidate in a long text sent to the press.

"If our accusers have only kept a handful of seconds of this long hour of speech, it is because they are frantically desirous to bury the truth. It has provoked in their tiny minds a panic fear. It is well too big for them. The truth is beyond them, those who have spent their lives lying," adds the former CNews polemicist.

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describes as a "truth" the conspiracy theory of the "great replacement" of European populations by immigrant populations, lists "the Islamization of our country, the violence in our streets, the arrogance of the elites, the contempt for our traditions and our morals, and the ruin of our compatriots by the crushing of taxes".

Eric Zemmour uses the word "truth" twenty-three times in this press release, in a rhetoric that is reminiscent of that of former US President Donald Trump, from whom he openly drew inspiration for the cover of his latest book. .

"I understand why people hate journalists"

Often associated with "the era of post-truth", Donald Trump launched his social network "Truth (truth) social" a few weeks ago.

Eric Zemmour is accused by part of the political class of having let the crowd chant "Macron assassin" during his meeting on Sunday on the Trocadero esplanade, when he listed the victims of a jihadist attack and criminal cases .

His entourage had indicated that he had "not heard" the slogan, and that he "condemns what the crowd said at that time", an expression that "he did not take up on his own" .

Tuesday, he had criticized on Europe 1 a "completely oversized controversy": "I understand why people hate journalists", he added.