The presidential candidate, founder of the political party Reconquête !, was on Saturday in Sables d’Olonne (Vendée) alongside the sovereignist Philippe de Villiers.
The far-right candidate for the Elysée Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) Called on Saturday in Les Sables d’Olonne (Vendée) for the “defense” of a statue of Saint-Michel, “symbol of Christian traditions”, including the justice ordered the withdrawal of a public place. The statue of Saint-Michel is “the object of the idiotic retribution of obsolete secularists”, launched Mr. Zemmour in front of approximately 250 supporters and defenders of the monument, calling for “respect for traditions and history”.
The decision of the Nantes administrative court followed a request from the Vendée federation of the Free Thought Association, which called for the statue to be removed from the public domain as a “manifest religious object”. “We will not allow ourselves to be eradicated by a judicial armed wing hostile to Christian traditions,” added Mr. Zemmour, who stood alongside the sovereignist Philippe de Villiers and Patrick Buisson, former adviser to the Elysee, under the five-year term of Nicolas Sarkozy. In a press release, the candidate denounced a “new victory of the + cancel culture + which instrumentalizes justice (…) to impose its destructive ideology”.
Bravo my dear Philippe for what you have done, conceived, produced, defended, developed and finally transmitted so magnificently, with so much generosity and panache.
I will tell you my dear friends: if there was a @PhdeVilliers by region, France would be saved! pic.twitter.com/eMHQkoOOs5– Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) January 8, 2022
“We are at home”
Earlier in the morning, Mr. Zemmour was greeted at the Town Hall by the mayor of Sables d’Olonne Yannick Moreau (ex-LR), defender of the statue of Saint-Michel. The latter appealed against the administrative tribunal’s decision in December. Eric Zemmour then spoke in front of about 500 people in a municipal hall.
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Long applauded by a crowd chanting “Zemmour president” and “We are at home”, he praised the “ardent patriotism” of the Vendée and praised its “cultural influence” as well as its “industrial success”.
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