Eric Zemmour is released on appeal for comments against Islam and immigration made in 2019 – franceinfo

The Paris Court of Appeal on Wednesday September 8 released the polemicist Eric Zemmour, who was being prosecuted for insult and incitement to hatred after a violent diatribe against Islam and immigration. At first instance, the 63-year-old columnist was sentenced for these comments to a fine of 10,000 euros.

Eric Zemmour spoke, on September 28, 2019, during “Convention of the Right”, a meeting organized by relatives of the former far-right MP Marion Maréchal. During his speech, he attacked immigrants “colonizers” and quoted the writer Renaud Camus, theorist of “great replacement” of the white and Christian population by a Muslim immigrant population. RTL had ceased its collaboration with him following this speech.

Eric Zemmour is also summoned to court on Wednesday for having implicated minor migrants, whom he described as “thieves” and D’“assassins” on CNews in September 2020. This lawsuit could be postponed.