Eric Zemmour definitively sentenced for complicity in frightening hatred for his feedback on unaccompanied minors | EUROtoday

On Tuesday, December 2, the Court of Cassation rejected Eric Zemmour’s attraction in opposition to his conviction for complicity in public insult and incitement to hatred for his feedback on unaccompanied minors made in 2020 on the CNews tv channel, making it closing.

The senior magistrates rejected one other attraction by the president of Reconquête!, in opposition to a conviction for defamation in opposition to the lawyer Patrick Klugman, whom he had accused of wanting “absolutely cover up the affair” Jeremie Cohen, named after a younger Jewish man fatally struck by a tram in February 2022 after being hit.

Regarding unaccompanied minors, Eric Zemmour argued in September 2020: “They have nothing to do here, they are thieves, they are murderers, they are rapists, that’s all they are, they should be sent away and they should not even come. » “It’s a permanent invasion”, “It’s an immigration policy problem”he added.

It is “rightly” that the Paris Court of Appeal sentenced him, in September 2024, after having retained “that the comments pursued exceed the admissible limits of freedom of expression due to their violence and their generality”estimated the Court of Cassation, contesting any “legitimacy, even in light of current debates on France’s migration policy”.

A sentence of 100 days – high-quality of 100 euros

Eric Zemmour was sentenced for complicity to 100 day high-quality of 100 euros, or 10,000 euros, whereas, in accordance with press legislation, it was the publishing director of CNews, Jean-Christophe Thiery de Bercegol du Moulin, who was sentenced to the principle offenses. The latter obtained a high-quality of three,000 euros. The CNews channel, for its half, was fined 200,000 euros by the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA, now Arcom), a sanction confirmed by the Council of State in 2022 and whose problem earlier than the European Court of Human Rights was rejected in January.

In the second case, Eric Zemmour was sentenced at first occasion and on attraction to a high-quality of 1,000 euros for defamation. On April 5, 2022, 5 days earlier than the primary spherical of the presidential election during which he was competing, he claimed on France 2 that Jeremie Cohen’s father had contacted him and advised him “that his lawyer Klugman absolutely wanted to cover up the affair” concerning the dying of his son.

Two months earlier, this 31-year-old man with a slight incapacity was hit by a tram in Bobigny whereas crossing the railway tracks, simply after being hit by younger individuals. Eric Zemmour then publicly questioned if he was “died because he was Jewish”. At the top of its investigation, the prosecution nonetheless assured that no component had come to accredit the “religious motive”.