With his clip announcing the presidential candidacy, Eric Zemmour will not have made only friends.
Not only did he use numerous video extracts (from films or reports) for which he had not requested permission, but in addition, he invoked a large number of personalities - political, historical, cultural - to illustrate his idea of France.
Among them, Voltaire, George Clémenceau, Jean Moulin, Charles de Gaulle, Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Aznavour, Georges Brassens, Barbara and… “Johnny”.
In addition to the mention of the name, the polemicist's candidacy clip contains an extract from an archive video, in black and white, showing the rocker on stage.
A reference that did not please Laeticia Hallyday, the widow of the singer who died in 2017.
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Eric Zemmour "tries to divert the image of Johnny for the benefit of his propaganda," she denounced in a statement sent to AFP on Wednesday evening.
"Disrespect for the symbol embodied by Johnny"
“This fault is not only reprehensible because no authorization has been requested and therefore granted.
It also constitutes a usurpation and the demonstration of the disrespect of its author towards the symbol that Johnny embodies, and towards all those who authentically carry Johnny in their memory ", added the mother of the family, who" charges (his) advice to consider all necessary prosecutions ”.
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This Thursday, she also said on RTL to have been "saddened" and "shocked" by discovering the image of her husband in the video of the new presidential candidate.
"This is propaganda that would not have pleased Johnny, he would not have liked that", assured Laeticia Hallyday.
"It was necessary to denounce this abuse", she concluded, recalling having "asked (his) lawyer to initiate proceedings".
She is not the only one to have had this reaction.
The day before, it is the nephew of the singer Barbara, also quoted by Eric Zemmour, who also said he was "surprised and shocked" and denounced, with Télérama, an "appropriation as revolting as scandalous, when we know the artist's work and humanist commitments ”.
