PARIS, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Eric Zemmour was fined 10,000 euros on Monday by the Paris Criminal Court for remarks about unaccompanied foreign minors present on French soil, whom he had likened to “thieves”. , “murderers” and “rapists”, said the lawyers for the civil parties.
This conviction for racial insult and incitement to racial hatred is in accordance with the prosecution’s requisitions presented in November.
The case dates back to September 2020 when Eric Zemmour described unaccompanied foreign minors on the CNews channel as “thieves”, “murderers” and “rapists”.
His lawyer announced on Monday that he was advising the former journalist to appeal.
The publication director of CNews was sentenced to a fine of 3,000 euros on Monday, according to the civil parties.
The positions of the candidate for the presidency of the Republic, which reaches 12% to 13% of voting intentions in the first round according to the polls, have already earned him two other convictions for incitement to hatred. (Report Blandine Hénault and Bertrand Boucey)
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