The conviction of Éric Zemmour for racist insult confirmed on appeal. In 2018, the polemicist described the first name of columnist Hapsatou Sy on set as an “insult to France” “It’s your first name that is an insult to France.
France is not a virgin land, it is a land with a history, with a past. Your first name is not in history, you are in the depths of France,” he told her. “I receive 3 to 4,000 hate messages per day, excrement of messages,. I am the subject of online harassment, I am targeted by death threats, calls for my rape and stoning.”