If he always wanted to be very discreet about his private life and protect his family, Eric Zemmour, in a relationship with his campaign manager Sarah Knafo and father of three children thanks to his previous relationship, has allowed himself some deviations since the beginning of his electoral campaign for the presidential elections. The leader of the far-right Reconquête movement thus took the example of his daughter, the youngest of the family, to illustrate his remarks on the LGBT+ community in an interview with readers of The voice of the North.
Responding to a young transgender man who is worried about his rights if Eric Zemmour is ever elected, the 63-year-old politician explains that he is for the freedom of every person but opposes treatment “that block puberty to a ten-year-old child because he said he felt of the opposite sex“. It was then that he quoted the experience of his daughter to refine his speech: “At 10, my daughter wanted to play football and refused to wear dresses. I could very well have encouraged that. But at puberty, that changes. Unlike Simone de Beauvoir, I think you are born a woman. You don’t choose your gender. For me, we must not spit on stereotypes or prejudices. Except to cut ourselves off from our deep nature.“Soon afterwards he will say that”LGBT groups have a deleterious effect. They have nothing to do at school“. A position that delights the rapper Booba, the artist having publicly supported his statements.
With the lawyer Mylène Chichportich, Eric Zemmour became the father of Hugo (born in 1997) who graduated with a master’s degree in history and who is interested in politics. According to Gala, “He was in charge of mission and parliamentary assistant for the group of the Centrist Union in the Senate“. Soon after came Thibault (1998) who came in front of the show’s cameras Campaign HQ to support his father. The latter does not see himself in the political world and studies entrepreneurship and the management of heritage companies at the University of Paris 1. And finally Clarisse, 18 years old. If they were all three present during his first meeting in Villepinte, it would seem that only Hugo and Thibault were in the game at the Trocadéro in early April, according to information from Gala.
On RTL in December 2021, the former polemicist had been questioned by Yves Calvi on what his offspring thought of his ideas and his political adventure: “My two boys are older, my daughter is younger, she is 17 years old. I can say that my two boys completely share my opinions” To which Yves Calvi had then replied with a smile: “Are you telling me, ‘my two boys yes, my daughter much less’?“The ex-journalist then clarified:”It’s not much less. She is less politically engaged, as she is younger. That’s why I allowed myself this oratorical precaution.”