The media called to “put away” Eric Zemmour – Les Echos

The media called to "put away" Eric Zemmour – Les Echos

Several associations and Cran filed legal action against Eric Zemmour after his remarks about Muslims

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Associations raise their voices against Eric Zemmour. Cran and several of them have announced legal action against the polemicist Eric Zemmour after his remarks about Muslims. The Representative Council of Black Associations (Cran) has announced that it will include Eric Zemmour to appear Friday before the High Court of Paris “to justify crimes against humanity and incitement to racial hatred.”

In an interview with Corriere della Sera on October 30, recently relayed Eric Zemmour had said that Muslims “live together in the suburbs” and “the French were forced to leave the .” Given the scale adopted by the controversy, Eric Zemmour denounced Thursday on RTL “a fantastic manipulation” .

“The real question is not why Eric Zemmour is so racist, “ said the president of Cran Louis-Georges Tin, ” why the media give so much space to a man so vile and so evil. ”

This is why the Cran called on the media to stop their collaboration with Eric Zemmour. He asks them to no longer invited and intend to meet the directions of iTELE, RTL and Figaro, where he regularly Media, “to request that it be sidelined.”

Petition

In turn SOS Racism , which had been one of the first to announce a complaint in this case, has launched an online petition calling on employers to Eric Zemmour stop their collaboration with him. “At the head of RTL, iTELE, Paris Première and Le Figaro, you are employers Eric Zemmour and, thus, give it the legitimacy of each of your media, although this can not be justified no ethics, “ believes the anti-racist association.

Wednesday already, the League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Lycra) asked the media “not to offer a platform” Eric Zemmour and announced the filing of a complaint against him for incitement to racial hatred.

The Cran is not his first action against Eric Zemmour since the upper Audiovisual Council (CSA), which he had entered, was ” strongly warned “ RTL in June after chronic polemicist evoking the “strips” foreign “who rob, rob or abuse them.”

In Seine-et-Marne, the Association of Muslim Meaux and the region also announced Thursday it filed a complaint against the polemicist for inciting racial hatred. His comments are “unworthy of a person who says Republican” and “no offense to Zemmour, Muslims like Roquefort, raclette, Reblochon and especially the cow-which -rit “ they wrote in a statement.

Another association, Committee 15 March and freedoms , announced a direct quote Eric Zemmour before the Paris court for “incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence” because of the racial origin or religion.

Wednesday, the Society of Journalists RTL was “disconnected” of about polemicist, believing that its positions taken by ” tarnished defended the values ​​” by the station. The RTL refused Thursday to comment on this reaction, as threats of a complaint.

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