Columnist Eric Zemmour its arrival at court in Paris, January 11, 2011 Reuters / Jacky Naegelen JUSTICE - The columnist was sentenced to 2,000 euros fine suspended ...
The Paris court ruled columnist Eric Zemmour guilty of incitement to racial discrimination on TV uttering controversial speech on "Blacks and Arabs." He was sentenced on Friday to 2,000 euros fine suspended. However, he was acquitted of the charge of defamation.
Eric Zemmour was sued by SOS Racisme Licra, MRAP, and UEJF J'accuse, for about 6 March 2010 on Canal + Oh, and France. In the show Thierry Ardisson Hi earthlings, broadcast on encrypted, Eric Zemmour was indignant after an intervention on the controls facies: "But why is checked 17 times? Why? Because most dealers are black and Arab, that's how it is a fact. "
A sentence of principle?
The same day, France Ô, he felt, in response to a question put to him, that employers are "entitled" to deny Arabs or Blacks. Highlighting "the credit to be given to the words" the accused, "A man of the media, acknowledged a polemicist, a troublemaker sometimes," the prosecutor Anne de Fontette was required at the hearing on January 14 conviction "in principle".
Regarding the quote on the traffickers, she regretted that Eric Zemmour has taken the "old stereotype that equates immigration crime." As to the second assertion, she recalled that in France, "discrimination is not a right but a crime."
He describes himself as observer faithful
More broadly, she had made the spokesman of a "Republic must unify and pacify, especially in the troubled period that France is going through for several months during which the remarks that were thought to permanently silenced picked up the pace. "
Eric Zemmour his side had defended himself vigorously, ensuring not to be a "provocative", but a faithful observer of reality that denies the "politically correct".
(AFP)
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