A Paris court has fined far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemour 10,000 euros for comments he made in 2020 that fall under the “hate speech” offense.
On a television show in 2020, Zemour, who is claiming the upper hand in the French far-right vote by the “traditional” far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, with a rhetoric of “denial of political correctness” reminiscent of former US President Donald Trump, says about young unaccompanied immigrants: “They have no job to be here, they are thieves, murderers, rapists, that’s all they do, we have to send them from where they came from”.
Zemour’s lawyer, Olivier Pardo, told BFM TV that his client reserved the right to appeal the decision. Zemour’s legal team has claimed that the allegations against France’s top candidate are unfounded, according to Reuters.
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