Eric Zemmour sentenced to 9,000 euros high quality for racial insult within the strap case | EUROtoday

The president of the far -right occasion reconquest!, Eric Zemmour, was sentenced Wednesday March 26 to a sentence of 9,000 euros high quality for racial insult after having made remarks the place he opposed “Two France” within the stray case. An absence of cost might give rise to his incarceration. Chance of the calendar, the authors of an investigation ebook on the 2023 drama filed a criticism on Wednesday for dying threats and insults.

During the evening of November 18 to 19, 2023, Thomas, a 16 -year -old highschool scholar, had been killed with stabs throughout a brawl between younger individuals from this Drôme village and a bunch of different younger individuals who arrived within the night. The case had aroused a energetic controversy, the suitable and the intense proper elevating it in an emblem of insecurity within the rural areas due, in line with them, to residents of deprived city districts.

Fourteen individuals, together with three minors, are indicted on this file for “voluntary homicide and attempted homicides voluntary in organized gang”.

Asked a couple of punitive expedition of extremely -right activists who had adopted, Eric Zemmour had criticized the “Media” and at ” government “ A “Smoke screen”,, ” ridiculous “ in contrast with “To the murder of Thomas” and “Dozens of deaths of the Arab-Muslim scum”. “Today, we have a situation where we have two peoples, two France, two youths, that of Thomas, that of Chahid”mentioned Eric Zemmour on November 30, 2023 on RMC and BFM-TV.

These remarks had been identified by the interministerial delegate to the combat towards racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT, SOS racism, two deputies of rebellious France and a person. Before the investigators, Eric Zemmour, already continued and condemned a number of occasions for his remarks on Islam, immigration or the historical past of France, had challenged the abusive nature of his phrases and claimed his freedom of speech.

“Haine speech”

The Paris Criminal Court careworn that the ex-presidential candle holds a “Essentialist discourse by deducting the origin of individuals from the first names they wear” And “Measles as assassins (…) People of Arab origin and Muslim confession ”.

Eric Zemmour “Sigging autos knowingly the picture of a divided France (…) Between on the one hand, a bunch of “predators”, within the sense of a murderous predation, made up of individuals of Arab origin ” and on the opposite that of “Thomas”,, “That he depicts, in contrast, in a idyllic and tender way”in line with the court docket.

He thus uttered “Serious insults”,, ” live “ In “Listening to programs (…) In a globalizing approach and conveying a hate speech that still aggravates dissensions and sharpens resentments ”according to the judges. The court, on the other hand, relaxed Mr. Zemmour for another passage from the interview, despite its use of “Terms and extreme by summoning the notions of” invasion “and” Islamization “”.

In addition, the authors of an investigation book on the Crépol affair filed a complaint on Wednesday for death threats and insults, learned the France-Presse agency from a source close to the file. Last week, their publisher, Editions Grasset, denounced the threats made against the authors, Jean-Michel Decugis, journalist at the ParisianPauline Guéna, novelist and screenwriter, and Marc Leplongeon, journalist at The team.

The book, entitled One night in Franceretraces the deadly brawl and highlights the political recovery of this case by certain elected officials and media who saw the illustration of “The Society’s Enaument”under the terms of the Minister of the Interior then, Gérald Darmanin, and proof of the existence of a “Anti-white racism” – What the gendarmes’ investigation does not establish.

“Distorted” work

As of the publication, the three authors were the target of threats and insults on social networks and in certain media. They were notably implicated in the program of Pascal Praud “L’Heure des Pros 2”, on CNews, March 18.

The mayor of Romans-sur-Isère, the city from which several under investigation is from, Marie-Hélène Thoraval (various right), who has been appointed from the start these people as attackers guided by the “Anti-white racism”was indignant at the content of the book.

Questioned Wednesday by the France-Presse agency, Jean-Michel Decugis moved that the work of the authors is thus “Distorted”. “It’s extraordinarily critical”he said. The association of the judicial press brought them on Friday “Unreserved assist” and a “Condemned with vigor assaults which shamelessly violate the bounds of acceptable criticism and democratic debate”.

In a judgment distinct from that rendered about the drama of Crépol, Eric Zemmour was released on Wednesday for messages on Twitter (now X) in which he mentioned in October 2022 the murder of Lola, 12 -year -old teenager.

“Dhabia B, Amine Okay, Friha B and Rachid N, these are the names of the 4 Algerian suspects within the Lola homicide case. When will we defend our kids towards these Francocides who’re at all times dedicated by the identical, at all times on the expense of the identical? »»he puzzled.

The court docket thought-about that these phrases, in the event that they “Proceed with coarse generalization, do not allow to characterize a determined community which would be targeted by the discriminatory remarks thus disseminated”.