On February 5, 2022, Eric Zemmour held a meeting in Lille, the same day as his far-right opponent for the presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, who was in Reims. During his large gathering marked once again by an attack on the press – a reporter having been spat in the face by an activist – the polemicist therefore took care of his intervention, multiplying the punch lines during his speech. Words closely watched by his campaign manager and companion, Sarah Knafo. The 28-year-old enarque was in the front row, seated next to Philippe de Villiers to listen but also give advice to Eric Zemmour at the podium. Thus, journalists from Day-to-day noted his coaching interventions during the show on Monday, February 7 on TMC.
“Eric Zemmour must absolutely distinguish himself from Marine Le Pen. In the front row, his partner Sarah Knafo watches everything and even gives him instructions like ‘speak more slowly’“, explains the journalist of Day-to-day. And when he makes a mistake about an elementas when he speaks “16 year old girls who are veiled“, Sarah Knafo makes the number 6 with her hands to correct it.
The one to whom he owes his entry into the presidential campaign – it is the gentleman communication of the young Reconquest party, Antoine Diers who had proclaimed him in Villepinte last December – is always very attentive to the word of Eric Zemmour. When he came to Cyril Hanouna’s show Facing Baba, she did not fail to coach him as well, sitting in the audience. She could thus communicate with the essayist using a multitude of facial expressions.
What measure ever more the growing importance of his role with Eric Zemmour, she who knew him in his youth. It remains to be seen whether the concerns of some people around him will turn out to be true. Philippe de Villers had declared, according to the book The Radicalized by Etienne Girard: “They fascinate each other. It will end badly.” In The Expressa relative who moved away from the successful essayist, Pierre Meurin, had for his part declared: “Eric Zemmour absolutely does not manage his team, he delegates everything to Sarah Knafo, whom he expects to offer him the Elysée. Another complicated point, she would not be a fan of Marion Maréchal, niece of Marine Le Pen who is considering a rapprochement with the leader of Reconquest to whom she feels closer politically.