Activists sprayed with gasoline, insulted on the sidelines of meetings or when sticking up posters, it’s too much for Éric Zemmour. The Reconquest candidate and his party deplore these “threats and violence”, and ask “the State to take action”. This follows the assault on Friday March 18 of candidate activists in Linas in Essonne, where eight people, including three teenagers aged 11 to 16, were sprayed by two motorists, while they were trying to extend a banner in support of Éric Zemmour above the Francilienne.
In police custody, the two men “said they hated Zemmour and his ideas. AFP a police source. More specifically, the bottle contained “tractor diesel mixed with Ice Tea”, according to the statements of the two men, reported by a source familiar with the matter.
The aggressors will have to compensate the victims and complete a citizenship course
The attackers, two men aged 24 and 26, were ordered on Sunday by the prosecution of Évry to make a criminal composition. This criminal composition – an alternative measure to prosecution to avoid a trial – was chosen “given the absence of a criminal record and the regrets expressed” by the two defendants, explained to AFP the prosecutor of Évry, Caroline Nisand.
The composition, which will be entered in their record, requires them to compensate the victims and to complete a citizenship course.
Éric Zemmour was himself attacked during the campaign
Since the start of the campaign, around 50 activists have been “attacked with knives, brass knuckles, attack dogs, tear gas, firearms, chairs, broken bottles and mortar fire “, pointed out Éric Zemmour in a press release. He himself received an egg on the head on March 12 in Moissac in the Tarn-et-Garonne, from a retired farmer, father of an autistic child and in disagreement with the controversial positions of Éric Zemmour on children with disabilities.
The candidate denounced this week a “total complacency of the political and media world” vis-à-vis these attacks, and asked “the State to crack down” and its activists “to show vigilance in their magnificent mobilization everywhere in France”.