“Contrary to what Eric Zemmour maintains, Vichy has also targeted the Jewish French” | EUROtoday

Lhe April 2, in a spectacular twist, the Paris Court of Appeal lastly condemned Eric Zemmour to a effective of 10,000 euros for “challenge to crime against humanity”. Reason: to have supported, on October 21, 2019, on a tv set, that Pétain had “Save the French Jews” beneath the occupation. Let us recall the deportation figures in France: out of a inhabitants of almost 300,000 people in mainland France on the eve of the Second World War, 74,150 had been deported beneath the occupation – amongst them, a 3rd of French.

What instantly strikes is the helplessness of this judgment to finish a debate engaged for a number of years earlier than the courts: launched at first occasion in 2021 then on enchantment in 2022, Eric Zemmour confronted in 2023 the cancellation of his launch by the Court of Cassation, which ordered this new trial in opposition to him. The case will expertise a brand new growth since, on April 2, he introduced to enchantment to the cassation in opposition to his conviction.

If the size of the process just isn’t distinctive – the enchantment constitutes a traditional enchantment out there to the litigants – it seems to be attention-grabbing in that it refers to a persistent discomfort in French society within the face of this query of historical past. Indeed, regardless of the seriousness of the demonstrations made since 2022 by essentially the most competent historians – Laurent Joly in thoughts, together with his e book Falsification of historical past. Eric Zemmour, the far proper, Vichy and the Jews (Flammarion, 2023) – to vigorously dismantle the try to rehabilitate Eric Zemmour from the thesis of the thesis “Small evil”public opinion nonetheless appears frozen within the position of spectator within the face of a debate reserved for specialists.

They level to Vichy’s duty for anti -Jewish roundups, these mass arrests which step by step got here to represent the Shoah in France. And, from this perspective, we’re typically nonetheless stunned right this moment to study that the Jews didn’t type a homogeneous group within the eyes of the persecutors. Indeed, if the Germans wished to arrest all of the Jews current on French soil with out distinction of nationality, the French authorities on the maneuver made a distinction and by no means accepted to win the nationals in Paris (other than the 4,100 kids of the Ahiv vel’hiv, born in France of international mother and father). Some 30,000 Jews nonetheless lived within the capital in June 1944.

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