On the cover of the new Paris Match, an intimate photo of Eric Zemmour hugging his advisor Sarah Knafo. This cliché quickly ignited social networks. If the far-right polemicist has lodged a complaint, is it not a publicity stunt?
Wednesday September 22, 2021, Paris Match, published its One of the week on social networks. We see the far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour, shirtless, bathing in La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var) and hugging a young woman. The latter turns her head and it is therefore impossible to recognize her. However, the weekly indicates that it is Sarah Knafo, the young advisor of the essayist. Paris Match publishes this Thursday a survey on “the young enarch who runs her campaign.”
An invasion of privacy, according to Eric Zemmour’s lawyer
Faced with the dissemination of these intimate photos, the former Cnews columnist was quick to react on Twitter. “You have to believe that I am starting to worry enough that Paris Match, the power poodle, will try to harm me. I will not be intimidated”, he said. In a press release published on September 22, Olivier Pardo and Laurence Dauxin-Nedelec, the lawyers of Eric Zemmour and Simon Olivennes, the lawyer of Sarah Knafo, announced to file a complaint against Paris Match.
“Paris Match and Here have published articles and images infringing on the privacy of Eric Zemmour (…) Nothing can justify this type of publication, except the will to harm. Consequently, we let us immediately initiate proceedings against these publications “, we can read in the document. Questioned by BFMTV on September 23, Olivier Prado declared that these images” are there for a purpose, an intention to undermine the Eric Zemmour’s private life. It is a desire to damage and destabilize. It is a shame on the part of Paris Match. “
Private photos of Eric Zemmour: has the distribution of these photos been authorized?
For its part, the newspaper Liberation conducted an investigation into the political interest of this paparazzade for the quasi-candidate for the 2022 presidential election. The daily noted in particular that the photos of Eric Zemmour and the young woman were not signed, but like the other pages inside. “However, it is not in the practice of the press to hide the identity of the author of a scoop”, said the media.
One thing is certain: the celebrity press no longer hesitates to publish information or images from the private lives of far-right personalities. Photos of the marriage of Marion Maréchal-Le Pen had thus been published in the front page of the magazine Public in mid-September 2021.
Article produced by Joséphine Argence