Far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was fined Monday 10,000 euros for incitement to hatred for remarks about unaccompanied migrant minors, a judgment which his lawyer announced that he would appeal. Absent for the judgment as during the trial last November, this accustomed to legal proceedings immediately denounced “an ideological and stupid condemnation”.
He was on trial for calling unaccompanied minor migrants “thieves”, “murderers”, “rapists” on the CNews channel in 2020.
“It’s a permanent invasion”, “it’s a problem of immigration policy”, he then vociferated in this program of which he was a columnist.
The lawyer for the former journalist, Me Olivier Pardo, announced that he was going to appeal the judgment of the Paris Criminal Court.
“It is an important decision because behind this media project, there is a political project, a project of hatred which tends to stigmatize people because of their origin, their confession, their race”, reacted after the conviction Arié Alimi, lawyer for the Human Rights League (LDH).
Thirty associations had become civil parties, including SOS Racisme, the LDH and the Licra, as well as around twenty departmental councils – unaccompanied minors being cared for by social assistance for children, managed by the departments.
“Unaccompanied foreign minors who come to seek protection in France, as well as all those who work as best as possible to offer them, are not and will never be useful scapegoats for any presidential ambition”, reacted Stéphane Troussel. , President of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis.