Eric Zemmour, the right-wing commentator whose surge in popularity is shaping France’s presidential election campaign, is due in court on Wednesday on charges of inciting racial hatred.
The polarizing figure has eaten into the voter base of both the more established far-right and mainstream conservative right.
The case relates to remarks that Zemmour, who has not officially declared his candidacy for the April, 2022, vote, made last year when he called unaccompanied child migrants “thieves, killers and rapists.” “He’s wanted for ‘racial hate’ but as far as I know an unaccompanied minor is neither a race, nor a nation, nor an ethnicity,” Pardo told RMC radio.
France’s broadcasting regulator in March handed a 200,000 euro fine to right-wing broadcaster CNews which aired Zemmour’s migrant comments.
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