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French political journalist and writer (born 1958)
Éric Zemmour
Zemmour at the 2012 Paris Book FairZemmour at the 2012 Paris Book Fair
BornÉric Justin Léon Zemmour
(1958-08-31) 31 August 1958 (age 66)
Montreuil, France
OccupationEssayist, political journalist
Alma materSciences Po
SubjectPolitical history, cultural evolution, opposition to immigration
Notable worksL'homme qui ne s'aimait pas
Le premier sexe
Mélancolie française
Le Suicide français
Destin français
La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot
Notable awardsPrix Richelieu
Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand
SpouseMylène Chichportich
Children3
Website
www.youtube.com/c/ÉricZemmourOfficiel

Éric Justin Léon Zemmour (French pronunciation: [eʁik zemuʁ]; born 31 August 1958) is a French political journalist, essayist, writer and television pundit. From 2019 to 2021, he was a presenter of Face à l'Info on CNews. Mainstream news organisations characterise Zemmour as far right and right wing while Zemmour politically self-identifies as a Gaullist and a Bonapartist.

Born in Montreuil, Zemmour studied at Sciences Po. He worked as a reporter for Le Quotidien de Paris from 1986 until 1996, and from 1996 for Le Figaro until he was shifted in 2010 to Le Figaro Magazine, before being reassigned to Le Figaro in 2013, where he worked until September 2021. He continued after 2013 to write for Le Figaro Magazine as a columnist. Zemmour appeared as a television personality on shows such as On n'est pas couché on France 2 (2006–2011), Ça se dispute on I-Télé (2003–2014). He also appeared on Zemmour et Naulleau from 2011 to 2021, a weekly evening talk show hosted by Anaïs Bouton on Paris Première, together with literary critic Éric Naulleau. Zemmour worked in parallel for RTL from 2010 until 2019, first hosting the radio show Z comme Zemmour, prior to joining Yves Calvi's morning news show as an analyst. His book The French Suicide (French: Le Suicide français) sold more than 500,000 copies in 2014 and won the 2015 Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand. Zemmour also received the 2011 Prix Richelieu for the whole of his career as a journalist.

In a 2021 article, The New York Times described Zemmour as someone who "has portrayed himself as a truth-teller in a news media dominated by politically correct, left-leaning journalists. He has railed against the immigration of Muslim Africans, invoking the supposed existential threat of a 'great replacement' — a loaded term that even Ms. Le Pen has avoided — that will overwhelm France’s more established white and Christian population". He has extensively promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and the Clash of Civilisations, as well as advocated for vast reforms to France's political system. Zemmour has been considered in news media as a possible right-wing anti-establishment candidate in the 2022 presidential election. He remains publicly undecided about a run for office.

Frequently sued for controversial statements by political opponents, he has been fined two times for provocation of racial discrimination in 2011 and for provocation of hate against Muslims in 2018, and acquitted six times, in 2008, 2014 (two times), 2016, 2017 and 2019.

Life and career

Early life

Éric Zemmour was born in Montreuil, then in Seine, nowadays in Seine-Saint-Denis, on 31 August 1958, to a Berber Jewish family from Algeria of French citizenship that came to metropolitan France during the Algerian War. He grew up in Drancy and later in the Paris quarter of Château Rouge. The son of Roger Zemmour (a paramedic) and his wife Lucette, a housewife, he has said he admires his mother and grandmother, as his father was often absent; he was raised by women "who taught to be a man".

Education

Zemmour graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1979. He then twice failed to gain admission to the École nationale d'administration (ÉNA). Despite his failure to gain admission to the ÉNA, his status as a political journalist allowed him to be a member of the admissions committee of the school in 2006.

Political journalist

Zemmour in 2008

Zemmour began his career in 1986 at Le Quotidien de Paris, under the leadership of Philippe Tesson, as a journalist at the politics desk. After the newspaper went out of business in 1994, he became an editorialist at Info-Matin, where he stayed one year. He then joined the editorship of Le Figaro in 1996 as a political journalist. During this period, Zemmour was also a freelance journalist for Marianne in 1997 and for Valeurs actuelles in 1999. In 2010, he was moved by Le Figaro to Le Figaro Magazine, allegedly after making controversial statements in other media but in fact because his salary was too high for a low weekly production. He was moved back to Le Figaro as a permanent journalist in 2013, where he has been writing regularly since, until he suspended his collaboration in September 2021 due to the promotion of his new book. He is also a political columnist at Le Spectacle du Monde.

Writer and essayist

Zemmour has written biographies of Édouard Balladur (Balladur, immobile à grands pas, or "Balladur, motionless with great strides") and Jacques Chirac (L'Homme qui ne s'aimait pas, or "The Man Who Did Not Like Himself") along with political essays. Notably, in 2006 he published Le premier sexe ("The First Sex"), a book on what he considers to be the feminisation of society. He worked on the screenplay for the film Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac by Michel Royer and Karl Zéro, although the latter stated that Zemmour's writing saw limited use. In March 2010, with Mélancolie française ("French Melancholy") which won the Prix du livre incorrect (lit. 'Inappropriate Book Award'), he revisits the history of France. Zemmour's 2014 book Le Suicide français ("The French Suicide"), which sold over 500,000 copies, remains his best literary success.

Television and radio personality

Beginning in September 2003, he participated every week on the show Ça se dispute on the 24-hour news channel i>Télé opposite Nicolas Domenach (Christophe Barbier until 2006). The channel decided to stop the programme in December 2014. He also appeared on Vendredi pétantes on Canal+ until June 2006. Starting September 2006, he rejoined France 2 to participate on the show On n'est pas couché, hosted by Laurent Ruquier, accompanied by Michel Polac and then Éric Naulleau, where they were responsible for presenting honest criticism of films, books or albums most notably. During the show, their exchanges with cultural figures sometimes ended in clashes. On 27 May 2011, Ruquier announced in Le Parisien that he was replacing Zemmour and Naulleau with new contributors for the next season of On n'est pas couché.

Éric Zemmour was also a participant on the show L'Hebdo as an editorialist on Tempo, a channel for the overseas departments and territories; he was accompanied by, among others, sociologist Dominique Wolton. Finally, he was on the cable network Histoire on the show Le grand débat, hosted by Michel Field. From 4 January 2010, he also presented a short piece on RTL entitled Z comme Zemmour every Monday and Friday, during which he analyses the news. From September 2011, he was a weekly guest on Zemmour et Naulleau alongside Éric Naulleau, an evening talk show on Paris Première. By 2021, Zemmour's show received about 900,000 nightly viewers, ten times higher than in 2019.

In 2015, following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Zemmour was temporarily placed under armed police protection. On 30 April 2020, Zemmour was insulted and threatened in Paris as he was walking alone with grocery bags. The incident was recorded by the perpetrator himself who posted the video on social media, boasting about his act as Zemmour was filmed ignoring the man and trying to walk away. Shortly thereafter, Zemmour received a phone call from President Emmanuel Macron during which they discussed the incident. The perpetrator, who later also recorded himself saying Zemmour is "too strong in debate, what do you want to do except insult him", received a suspended prison sentence of three months on 8 September 2020. On 27 September 2021, Zemmour was again threatened in Paris, when a man shouted a death threat in the name of Islam.
Since October 2020, he is again under permanent armed police protection.

Potential candidacy in the 2022 presidential election

Zemmour has been urged several times by political friends to run for office. He has so far always declined the proposition, but does not deny wanting to play a role in the 2022 presidential campaign. He commented on this matter in an interview in June 2021 broadcast by "Livre noir" which attracted more than 1 million viewers.

In 2021, he engaged in a national tour of France for the promotion of his new book, La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot, published on 15 September. It sold over 80,000 copies in the first four days, and 165,000 copies in the first 3 weeks. Guest on France 2 on 11 September in Laurent Ruquier's On est en direct programme, Zemmour suggested that the announcement of his candidacy was only a matter of time: "For now, I am not a candidate. When I want to be a candidate, I will say that I am a candidate. When I decide, I will say it. For now, I am thinking. There are people, for many years, months, for years, who pushed me to be a candidate, who think that it is I who have the right ideas for France", he indicated. He reiterated this position throughout September on RTL, BFMTV, CNews and LCI. On 28 September, Le Parisien revealed that Éric Zemmour already has at his disposal a large office space, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, rented by the association "The Friends of Éric Zemmour".

In an interview with The New York Times, Raphaël Glucksmann described Zemmour as having "a very clear ambition, which is to erase the divide between the republican right and the far-right under the banner of the far-right". In a radio show on France Inter in September 2017, Zerofsky reported, Zemmour told Glucksmann: "You have understood me very well". On September 24, Zemmour engaged in a widely publicized two hour long televised debate with left-wing presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon attracting over 3.8 million viewers.

In a 2021 article for the The Daily Telegraph British conservative author Douglas Murray opined that Zemmour would be able to gain support as a viable right-wing candidate and even unseat Macron as president through lacking the historical "taint" of the Le Pen family dynasty.

Polls for the 2022 presidential election

His candidacy has been tested in several polls since June 2021. The first time he appeared in a poll, in June 2021, the Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP) credited him of 5.5% of the vote.

In August 2021, he was credited with 7% of voting intentions according to Ipsos. On 14 September he was credited by Harris Interactive with 10% of voting intentions, on 21 September with 11%, as well as on 29 September with 13 to 14% of voting intentions. Harris Interactive, one of the major French polling institutes, is now regularly and closely following his ascension. On 29 September 2021, Valeurs actuelles titled a YouTube interview with Zemmour as "The Rocket Zemmour".

On 1 October 2021, with 15% of voting intentions, he passed in front of all the right-wing candidates for the first time, reaching the third place of all candidates with only 1 point behind National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen. Hence, he was placed in a potentially competitive position to reach the second round of the election. In this Ipsos Sopra-Steria survey in partnership with France Info, President Emmanuel Macron leads with around 25%, followed by Marine Le Pen (around 16%). Éric Zemmour follows behind at 15%. The right-wing candidates, who will face off at a The Republicans congress on 8 December, come behind in every tested hypothesis: Xavier Bertrand (14%), Valérie Pécresse (12%), Michel Barnier (11%).

On 6 October 2021, Zemmour reached 17% of voting intentions and the second place of all candidates, qualifying for the first time of all polls for the second round of the election: In this Harris Interactive survey for the economic magazine Challenges, President Emmanuel Macron leads with around 24%, as Marine Le Pen is falling to 15% of voting intentions. The right-wing candidates come behind Zemmour: Xavier Bertrand (13%), Valérie Pécresse (11%), Michel Barnier (10%). The managing director of Harris Interactive, Jean-Daniel Lévy, did not hide his astonishment: "We have never seen such a meteoric rise in such a short time".
On 13 October 2021, in a new Harris Interactive poll, Zemmour reached 17/18% of voting intentions, maintaining the second place of all candidates behind Emmanuel Macron, still leading with 24%. Marine Le Pen keeps 15% of voting intentions. The right-wing candidates keep coming behind Zemmour: Xavier Bertrand (14/15%), Valérie Pécresse (11%), Michel Barnier (7/9%).

Overview of political positions

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Zemmour identifies his political leanings with Gaullism and Bonapartism.

Since 2014, Éric Zemmour has been commonly presented as a "far-right pundit" in French media. Historian Laurent Joly considers in 2015 that "since Barrès and Maurras, no other intellectual, journalist or writer has had this status as a broker of far-right ideas with a very large readership"..
In an interview of Zemmour in August 2021, a journalist asked him how it is still possible to classify him on the extreme right. Zemmour brushed aside the criticisms: "It is an old Stalinist method of the 1930s, which consists in calling all your opponents 'fascists'."

On the contrary, Jean-Yves Camus, a researcher at the Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS) since 2006 and president of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques at the centre-left think tank Fondation Jean-Jaurès since 2014, who is a worldwide recognised specialist of this political field in France, states that Zemmour cannot be qualified as belonging to the far-right. He explains why: "Far-right, we must not exaggerate. The far-right inevitably refers to the fascist, Nazi experiences, to collaboration. Éric Zemmour may have had extremely hazardous historical analyses, in particular on Marshal Pétain and the fate of the Jews during the Second World War. But that he is not fascist, that seems absolutely obvious to me".
Asked in October 2021 on the positioning of Eric Zemmour in relation to Marine Le Pen, Camus ranks him "on the right", more precisely in the family of the "radical conservative right", believing that he cannot be considered as a far-right man because of his background and potential electorate for the 2022 presidential election

Many other French media outlets also present him "on the right", or even in the "conservative right", or as Gaullist, or in the "sovereignist right", or in the "radical right", or in the "radical and identitary right".

Social and economic issues

As a result of the views that he regularly expresses on television and in his editorials in Le Figaro, Zemmour is widely perceived, according to current mainstream categories, to be situated firmly on the right of the political spectrum, but he also claims not to vote according to right-wing or left-wing politics. He declares himself to be of the Gaullist or Bonapartist tradition while acknowledging the relevance of Marxist analyses, particularly concerning the sources of profit in capitalism, including immigration. According to him, capitalism destroys traditional structures like the family in order to impose the rule of the market, an upheaval that has been apparent since the events of May 1968.

Social issues

He takes a conservative stance on social issues and is also somewhat resolutely anti-liberal on economic issues. He thus identifies himself as a reactionary in opposition to a society that deconstructs social order, in particular the family and traditions, in the service of a false goal, liberating the individual who in reality finds himself isolated and reduced to the sole status of a consumer. He presents reaction as subversive in the light of the fact that progressives, today dominant in the fields of culture and media, cannot claim to criticise the established order since they themselves constitute this order and fix its norms.

Economic issues

Economically anti-liberal, his disapproval of free trade drives him to oppose European federalism and the European Union, which he considers to be clearly in favour of the free movement of goods and in deep conflict with the French social model. According to him, because of the European Union, the left, like the right, must apply "the same economic policy, social liberalism or liberal socialism" because, in the words of Philippe Séguin, "right and left are retailers of the same wholesaler, Europe". Zemmour supports protectionism, which he feels is the only healthy economic policy nowadays.

Immigration and assimilation

Interviewed in August 2021 on his views on immigration in France, Zemmour declared : “We have to stop the flow. I'm not just talking about the illegals; I am thinking first of legal immigration. There is a process of replacing the population from the moment there are too many immigrants who no longer assimilate. It's inevitable."

A member of the French assimilationist tradition, Zemmour has strongly opposed mass immigration, and the current model of integrating immigrants which he considers to be too lenient, for a long time. In November 2008, he gave an interview to the monthly Le Choc du mois where he compared immigration to a "demographic tsunami". He has also came out in 2007 in favour of the Thierry Mariani amendment, which would require genetic tests in order to qualify for family reunification. On numerous occasions, he has declared that he is for assimilation. In particular, he expresses a nostalgia for the era of his youth, the 1960s, when he believes there was a cultural unity.

On October 2, 2021, in Lille, during a public meeting, Eric Zemmour recalled his very strong position in terms of migratory flows, pleading for an end to illegal and legal immigration in France. More precisely, he then recalls that he is in fact taking on his own a proposal made in 1980 by Georges Marchais, then secretary general of the French Communist Party: “the oldest among you will remember the famous speech of Georges Marchais there is forty years old in which he said "we must stop illegal and legal immigration"; that's exactly what I'm saying today.”

Zemmour has extensively promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, contending that France's population will be replaced by immigrants.

Zemmour has also supported Rattachism.

Human rights

Zemmour often expresses opinions that he describes as "anti-human-rights-doctrine", thus bringing himself in opposition to some politicians (Bernard Kouchner), writers (Bernard-Henri Lévy), as well as organisations advocating the right to humanitarian intervention, which he considers to be a form of neocolonialism.

Race and anti-racism issues

Zemmour says he would like to put on trial the anti-racism of the 1980s, which he considers, along with feminism, to be a "bien-pensant cause" derived from the "milieu of French and Western pseudo-elites" that the people will not follow in the least. He says that it was especially after having "read Pierre-André Taguieff" who is known for his positions and work on the Nouvelle Droite and anti-racism that he "understood that anti-racist progressivism was the successor of communism, with the same totalitarian methods developed by the Comintern during the 1930s". According to him, anti-racism is a tactic initiated by François Mitterrand to make people forget the left's turn to economic liberalism in 1983. He claims that anti-racism is an ideology implemented by former leftists who had had to give up their illusions. With immigrants, these people had found a kind of alternative revolutionary people.

Feminism and homosexuality

In Le premier sexe, he claims the existence of the "devirilisation" of society during the 20th century and asserts that women and homosexuals have been used as a reserve army to satisfy modern capitalism's need for consumers. He accuses feminists of being demagogues and verging into political correctness in denying or rejecting the history of French society and psychological work of Freud: "I note only that Freud is vehemently rejected today by all the bien-pensants, feminists and other activists for same-sex parents". He believes that man is by nature a sexual predator who uses violence. In a parallel to this definition of virility as sexual predation, he believes that certain eras defined the role of women better than others.

He believes the "gay ideology" to be one of the main means used to invite a "man to become a woman like the others", to adopt the behaviour of women. However, he differentiates homosexuals as individuals from gays as a group. In his book Petit Frère, a character ponders the place to be given to homosexual individuals: "In every traditional society, founded on shame and secrecy, respect for life and the fear of death, "gays" would have been stigmatised and isolated, like the lepers of old". Zemmour does not fail, afterwards, to explain that these are the views of characters in a novel.

Controversies and conflicts with opponents

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The subjects Zemmour addresses as well as the positions he defends have earned him a number of strong opponents and supporters. According to an article by François Dufay, La fronde des intellos (literal translation: "The upheaval of the intellectuals"), in the June 2002 edition of Le Point, Jean-Marie Le Pen reportedly said that " only three journalists who behave properly with respect to " are Élisabeth Lévy, Éric Zemmour and Serge Moati. Zemmour noted during an interview: "I think he meant that with an ironic wink: it refers to his famous declaration fifteen years ago that caused such a scandal when he criticised Elkabbach, Levaï, who were all Jewish, and you will note that the three who he noted treat him well are also all Jewish... And he knows that quite well, and everyone knows that quite well".

Following a number of controversies after a talk show on Arte dedicated to miscegenation on 13 November 2008, as a result of his comments on races (that blacks and whites belonged to two different races and that this difference was discernible by skin colour, without ranking them hierarchically), Zemmour also published a reply in the weekly Vendredi. Faced with the critics caused by the views expressed by Éric Zemmour during the show, the deputy manager of programmes for the Arte channel distanced himself from these words but explained that nothing said was illegal.

On 25 March 2009, he filed a complaint against the French rapper Youssoupha for "criminal threats and public abuse" after the uploading of the song "Because of saying it" in which Zemmour was attacked ad hominem: "Because of judging our faces, people know, that talking heads often demonise the ghetto-dwellers, each time it blows up they say it's us, I put a price on the head of the one who silences this asshole Éric Zemmour". The rapper had clarified in a previous interview in the newspaper Le Parisien that he was not advocating silencing Zemmour by force, but rather by argument: "Silencing, it means putting him in his place. (...) The words do not refer to murder, or aggression, or injuries... I did not want to either have him killed or to deprive him of his freedom of expression. Silencing, it means to put him in his place, to expose him to his own contradictions". The album was finally released on 12 October 2009, with an expurgated version of the controversial track in which Zemmour's name is scrambled out. On 26 October 2011, Zemmour won his suit against the rapper and the director general of EMI Music France, Valérie Queinnec.

On 5 March 2011, some voices were raised against Zemmour and called for Rémy Pflimlin, the CEO of France Télévisions, to suspend Zemmour's collaboration with France 2, which he refused to do, explaining: ""The public service is attached to humanist and republican values, but it is also the place where the diversity of opinions is expressed within the legal framework", he reminds those around him urging him to suspend Éric Zemmour's collaboration with France 2".

On 17 November 2015, four days after the 13 November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, Zemmour stated on RTL: "Instead of bombing Raqqa, France should bomb Molenbeek from which the Friday 13 commandos came". This caused outrage in Belgium. In a 24 March 2016 column, Zemmour added: "Molenbeeks, France is full of them. France creates them in abundance".

On 18 September 2018, Zemmour created a controversy around his opinion of the first name of columnist Hapsatou Sy on the TV programme Les terriens du dimanche hosted by Thierry Ardisson. His words "It's your first name that is an insult to France", adding "first names embody the history of France" were cut at the editing of the show but rebroadcast by Sy. She then asked him "What would you like my name to be?" to which he answered "Corinne, that would suit you very well". She decided to file a complaint against Zemmour.

In 2020, whilst commenting footage that showed four policemen hitting a black man in Paris, Zemmour responded to accusations of racism levelled at the involved policemen by saying "I can hardly see getting up in the morning and telling themselves: 'Here, I'm going to break my career and I'm going to hit a black guy'", although he recognised "that does not mean that they were right" to do what they did. He also questioned the victim's judicial history.

In May 2021, Zemmour was publicly accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour by several women, but no judicial proceedings followed.

In September 2011, in his book La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot, Zemmour states Seine-Saint-Denis—the northern suburbs of Paris known for their large Muslim population—has become a "foreign enclave under the reign of Allah", a remark which angered local politicians.

On 11 September 2021, Zemmour's declaration about the 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings caused controversy among Jewish communities in France.

Cases before French jurisdictions

As of 2021, Éric Zemmour has been convicted once by French jurisdictions for provocation to racial discrimination and in 2018 for provocation of hate against Muslims. He did not appeal his 2011 conviction. A 2015 conviction for provocation to racial discrimination was maintained upon appeal in 2016, but invalidated by the Court of Cassation, which ordered for a new trial to take place. Zemmour was then cleared of all charges in 2018. A 2018 conviction is currently pending in front of the European Court of Human Rights and thus not definitive. A 2020 conviction was overturned upon appeal in 2021, as Zemmour was again cleared of all charges by the court.

Conviction for provocation to racial discrimination

The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) decided to launch legal proceedings against Éric Zemmour for his views after the 6 March 2010 broadcast of Salut les Terriens presented by Thierry Ardisson, where he promoted his book Mélancolie française. He declared during the show that: "French people with an immigrant background were profiled because most traffickers are Blacks and Arabs... it is a fact". The same day, he asserted on France Ô that employers "had the right to refuse Arabs or blacks". The Club Averroes and the MRAP submitted the case to the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel after the legal proceedings brought by the LICRA. Éric Zemmour was supported by several personnalities, including the founder of Reporters Without Borders, journalist and right-wing Mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard.
On 23 March 2010, he wrote a letter to the LICRA explaining his views. In this letter he particularly observed the views of Christian Delorme before a parliamentary commission of the Senate. He cited the book L'Islam dans les prisons by Farhad Khosrokhavar, who confirmed the figure of 70 or 80% of "Muslims in prison" estimated in a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Justice.
Following this letter, the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) decided to withdraw its legal proceedings against Éric Zemmour.

On 30 March 2010, Éric Zemmour was summoned by SOS Racisme to appear in court on 29 June 2010, where he "will have to answer for the offense of racial defamation and incitement to racial hatred." Meanwhile, these views and the trial were given international scope by an article devoted to them and to Zemmour in The New York Times in February 2011. During the trial, Zemmour received testimony in his favour from journalist Robert Ménard, his fellow columnist Éric Naulleau, writer Denis Tillinac, politician Claude Goasguen and essayist Xavier Raufer.

On 18 February 2011, in a first judgment, the 17th chamber of the court of Paris acquitted Éric Zemmour of the offense of defamation for the remarks on the traffickers. These words may be "shocking", writes the court, but they are not "defamatory". On the other hand, the media man was condemned to a 1,000 euros fine suspended for having, on France Ô, "justified an illegal discriminatory practice - discrimination in hiring - by presenting it as lawful". In a second judgment, the 17th chamber only retained the offense of provocation to racial discrimination and sentenced Éric Zemmour to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros.

On 2 March 2011, invited by Hervé Novelli and given an ovation by the members of Parliament from the Union for a Popular Movement at the national convention of The Reformers, Éric Zemmour suggested doing away with the laws on racial discrimination, the memorial laws, prosecutions by anti-racist organisations and subsidies to them in a speech to the UMP members of Parliament.

In August 2021, interviewed on this conviction for "incitement to hatred", Zemmour replies: "I was condemned for offense of opinion. I am not a delinquent, I am a dissident".

Cases won by Éric Zemmour

2008: Defamation complaint against his novel Petit Frère

In 2008, following the publication of his novel Petit Frère, in which a Jew is attacked by a young North African in a parking lot, Zemmour admits to having been inspired by a news item that occurred five years earlier: the murder of Sébastien Selam by Adel Amastaibou. Selam was a childhood friend and next door neighbour of Amastaibou. Zemmour was sued by the family of Selam who demanded the book be banned. According to the family lawyer, in the novel, the victim is described as a "bad Jew, his mother defamed and his grandfather accused of the worst evils". Zemmour won the case.

2014: Column on RTL attacked for "incitement to racial hatred".

On June 17, 2014, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA), seized by the Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN), “strongly warns” RTL after a column by Eric Zemmour broadcast on May 6, judging the remarks made "likely to encourage discriminatory behavior vis-à-vis expressly designated populations, and to be able to incite hatred or violence against them". The incriminated words are: “Our territory, deprived of the protection of its old borders, is reviving in the cities, but also in the countryside, with the great raids, the looting of yesteryear. The Normans, the Huns, the Arabs, the great invasions after the fall of Rome are now replaced by bands of Chechens, Roma, Kosovars, North Africans, Africans, who rob, violate or rob. " The CSA also considered that RTL had "failed, by allowing the broadcasting of these remarks, to control the broadcast", recalling that the chronicle had been communicated beforehand by its author to the managers of the station. Prosecuted for "incitement to racial hatred" for these comments, Eric Zemmour was released in September 2015 by the Paris Criminal Court, which ruled that "as excessive, shocking or provocative as these comments may seem", they do not apply “only to a fraction of the targeted communities and not to them as a whole”. The Court of Appeal confirmed the acquittal on June 22, 2016.

2014: Remarks on Muslims in the Corriere della Sera

On October 30, 2014, he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: “Muslims have their civil code, it is the Koran. They live among themselves, in the outskirts. The French were forced to leave". The journalist then asks him: "But don't you think that it is unrealistic to think that we take millions of people, we put them on planes to hunt them?" Zemmour replies, “I know, it's unrealistic, but the story is surprising. Who would have said in 1940 that a million pieds-noirs, twenty years later, would have left Algeria to return to France? Or that after the war five or six million Germans would have abandoned central and eastern Europe where they had lived for centuries?". On December 17, 2015, Zemmour was sentenced at first instance to a fine of 3,000 euros, for inciting hatred against Muslims. The conviction was confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal on November 17. In January 2018, the Cour de Cassation overturned the conviction. Éric Zemmour was released on November 29, 2018, by the Paris Court of Appeal, the judges considering that "it is not proven that Eric Zemmour, prosecuted as an interviewee, knew that this newspaper was published in France".

2016: Accusation of defamation by Cécile Duflot for comments on the Baupin affair

On May 12, 2016, Éric Zemmour declared on RTL that by publishing Denis Baupin's telephone exchanges, "Mediapart violated all the rules of respect for private life" and that these journalists are "also and above all the consenting instruments of Cécile Duflot's political revenge against Emmanuelle Cosse, Denis Baupin's companion, who betrayed her for a ministerial dish of lentils”. On February 6, 2018, the Paris Criminal Court released Éric Zemmour, finding that his allegations against Cécile Duflot were not defamatory.

2017: Comments on discrimination: CSA’s decision targeting Zemmour on RTL cancelled by Conseil d'Etat

On February 2, 2017, Éric Zemmour declared on RTL: “Non-discrimination is misrepresented as a synonym of equality whereas over time it has become a machine to disintegrate the Nation, the family, society in the name of the rights of an individual king”. On June 14, 2017, RTL was put on formal notice by the CSA for having broadcast a “praise of discrimination” without any “contradiction or putting into perspective”. On October 15, 2018, the Conseill d'Etat cancelled the decision of the CSA.

2019: Speech against Muslims at the right-wing convention

On September 25, 2020, the Paris court sentenced Éric Zemmour to a fine of 10,000 euros for "insult and incitement to hatred", because of the comments he had made in September 2019 during a speech to the against Muslims and immigration, at the opening of the right-wing convention organized by relatives of Marion Maréchal. In its judgment, the court said that, "by distinguishing among the French all the Muslims opposed to the "ethnic French" and by designating them, as well as the Muslim immigrants living in France, not only as criminals perpetrators of the terrorist attacks. 2015 but like former colonized people who became colonizers”, the remarks made “constitute an exhortation, sometimes implicit and sometimes explicit, to discrimination and hatred towards the Muslim community and its religion”.
Éric Zemmour appealed. The appeal hearing took place on June 2, 2021. The Paris Court of Appeal acquitted him on September 8, 2021. In the reasons for its judgment, the court of appeal ruled that "none of the statements pursued target all Africans, immigrants or Muslims but only fractions of these groups”. "There is no justification for remarks targeting a group of people as a whole because of their origin or their belonging or not belonging to a particular ethnicity, nation, race or religion," the court added, "from where it follows that the prosecuted offenses are not constituted." The general prosecutor's office has filed a cassation appeal, which is pending.

Publications

Non-fiction

Novels

Prizes

  • 2010 Prix de la Liberté d'expression (Enquête & Débat)
  • 2010 Prix du livre incorrect
  • 2011 Prix Richelieu (Association de Défense de la langue française)
  • 2015 Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand (Académie Chateaubriand)

Books on Éric Zemmour

Notes

  1. Éric Zemmour is commonly presented as a far-right pundit by: La Croix, Le Point, Marianne, Le Monde, Challenges, Europe 1, LCI, France Bleu, 20 Minutes, Le HuffPost, Le Parisien, La Voix du Nord, Le Courrier picard, La Provence, Libération, Mediapart, L'Obs, Les Inrocks, L'Humanité, Numérama, Charlie Hebdo, Acrimed, Arrêt sur images, Juriguide, Le Courrier de l'Atlas, Jeune Afrique, Streetpress.
  2. Many other French media outlets also present him "on the right", or even in the "conservative right", or as Gaullist, or in the "sovereignist right", or in the "radical right", or in the "radical and identitary right": L'Express, Libération, La Presse.ca, Entreprendre, Le JDD, Midi Libre, Nice-Presse, Ouest-France, France inter, Courrier international - Il Foglio, Vanity Fair, Le Parisien, L'Obs, L'Opinion, LCI, Le Soir.be
  3. Many English or American media outlets also present him as “far right”, but also “conservative” or “right-wing”
  4. because of insufficient production with respect to his salary, after a controversy erupted over statements he had made, for which he was convicted of incitement to racial discrimination, and fined €2,000 by the court.
  5. According to historian Benjamen Stora, quoted by Le Monde, Eric Zemmour is an Arab Jew, but would prefer to say "Berber Jew", an expression "which makes it possible to distinguish oneself from the frowned upon arabness". Stora, however, does not mention any source for his statement.
  7. Jean-Yves Camus is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and the Director of the Observatory of Political Radicalism at Foundation Jean Jaures. He also sits on the Scientific Board of the Délégation interministérielle pour la lutte contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et la lutte contre l’homophobie (DILCRAH). Prior to this, he was the research director at the European Center for Research on Racism and Anti-Semitism (CERA) in Paris. He is the author of seven books in French about the Front National and the Radical Right in France, including "Les droites nationales et radicales en France" (1992, with René Monzat); "Le Front national, histoire et analyse" (Éditions Olivier Laurens, 1996), "Le Front national" (Éditions Milan), and "Extrémismes en France : faut-il en avoir peur ?" (Éditions Milan, 2006). He has edited "Les Extrémismes en Europe" (La Tour d’Aigues, éditions de l’Aube, 1998). Additionally, Camus has published scholarly articles and opinion pieces on the Front National, the Radical Right, anti-Semitism, and racism in France and has contributed to many edited volumes in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. With Nicolas Lebourg, he recently co-authored "The Extremes Rights in Europe" (Harvard University Press, 2017).
  8. Many other French media outlets also present him "on the right", or even in the "conservative right", or as Gaullist, or in the "sovereignist right", or in the "radical right", or in the "radical and identitary right": L'Express, Libération, La Presse.ca, Entreprendre, Le JDD, Midi Libre, Nice-Presse, Ouest-France, France inter, Courrier international - Il Foglio, Vanity Fair, Le Parisien, L'Obs, L'Opinion, LCI, Le Soir.be
  9. "I did not think he would express himself in such a clumsy way! Our channel, of course, is not associated with Zemmour's views. We checked with our legal services to see if these statements fell within the scope of the law. This does not seem to be the case. The important thing is that these words were disputed on set.... we will think twice before inviting him again!"
  10. The president of SOS Racisme, Dominique Sopo, wrote him a letter and demanded sanctions, after which it was the turn of the General Confederation of Labour to demand a reaction from Pfimlin.
  11. "The family of Mohammed Merah asked to bury him on the land of his ancestors in Algeria. It was also known that the Jewish children murdered in front of the denominational school in Toulouse would be buried in Israel. Anthropologists have taught us that we are from the country where we are buried. Assassins or innocents, executioners or victims, enemies or friends, they wanted to live in France, (...) but when it comes to leaving their bones, they especially did not choose France, foreigners above all".
  12. Moreover, in addition to the fine, the first judgment sentenced him to pay €1,000 in damages and interest and €2,000 in legal costs to each of the three organisations (totalling €9,000) and the second sentenced him to pay one euro to each of the civil parties and €750 in legal costs (totalling €1,502)
  13. He must also pay 1 euro to each of the civil parties, plus 750 euros in legal costs, for a total of 1,502 euros. The two judgments will finally have to be published in the press.
  14. Éric Zemmour was also ordered to pay one euro in damages and 1,500 euros for legal costs to eight civil party associations, including the Human Rights League (LDH) and SOS Racisme.

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