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The far-right candidate has appeared in the city of the Alpes-Maritimes with his recent rallies, from LR like Peltier or from the RN. A tour of the market before a speech calibrated to saturate the news channels continuously.
Zemmour in the streets of Cannes is a bit like Jesus Christ reappearing in Bethlehem. With many more pensioners and far-right people. Saturday morning, there is an atmosphere of almost religious fervor at the Provençal market of Forville, a stone’s throw from the Croisette. An opaque cloud of cameras and poles prevents seeing the messiah. Above his head, a man brandishes the polemicist’s latest book, like a priest carries the Gospel to mass. “I saw it ! He’s there !” yells a lady who has just glimpsed a bald head. “He shook my hand, I said ‘I love you’, I’m crazy”shouts a fan who is still laughing with happiness.
More composed, an old bourgeois, tweed jacket with elbow patches, Hermès scarf, laughs, too, a little behind, with benevolence: “Frankly, can you imagine Mélenchon in power?” A few neighbors laugh at this sketch of the apocalypse. Zemmour takes a tour of the market. We see the heads of his apostles, the old and the new, rallying to his cause very recently: on his right, the ex-LR Guillaume Peltier; on his left, the ex-RN Jérôme Rivière (with him since Wednesday evening)…