Supporters of Eric Zemmour simulate gunfire on Emmanuel Macron and elected Insoumis

New controversy in sight for Eric Zemmour. Two supporters of the presidential candidate posted videos on social networks, simulating shootings on Emmanuel Macron and elected officials of France Insoumise. Revealed on Twitter by the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group, and by Mediapart, the footage shows a man wearing a cap “Well then”, a tic in the language of the polemicist erected as a trademark by his fans, to practice with a sniper rifle.

“Well let’s see friends, who are we going to break out there? From the young gaucho, the young communist, the young mental bougnoule”, laughs the young man, before firing with a big caliber. “Ah, Emmanuel Macron!” he continues, mimicking surprise, gun in aim, before firing a second shot.

In another video filmed in the same place, another young man targets the ex-spokesman of France Insoumise Raquel Garrido. Rifle in hand, he explains “train to hunt wild Garrido” before firing, then firing a second time, evoking her husband, the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière. In the same sequence, the man openly imagines himself shooting “antifas and leftists”, as well as on people of North African origin. “There are Algerian and Moroccan flags, I saw there, so we will hurry to shoot”, he blurted out.

According to the newspaper Liberation, which had access to his private Instagram account, he presented himself there until very recently as “military” and “Catholic”.

According to a police source, “the Pharos platform, responsible for the fight against illegal content on the Internet, was seized after reports from Internet users”.

“Our lawyer Xavier Sauvignet of the Paris bar has already drafted and lodged a complaint for death threats and provocation to the commission of a crime”, said Raquel Garrido Tuesday at a press conference in Marseille. “Eric Zemmour put a target on my back”, she said, before adding: “Today, the entire online fascosphere is targeting us one after the other, with a clear risk of taking action.” And to complete: “At this moment, we do not know where the individual and his sidekick are located, we do not know if there are police services which are actively looking for them, we do not know if a prosecution somewhere has seized facts to pursue them, “she added.

Also in Marseille, alongside Ms. Garrido, Alexis Corbière invited Eric Zemmour to “clearly condemn the video which threatens us with death and which threatens with death a whole series of people”, while estimating that a few months before the presidential election, “it must stop” and “the public authorities must send a clear signal”.