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'Don't shake my hand.' 'Her voice is muffled, her gaze plunged into an open newspaper, her body sunk in a tan leather chair.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon whispered to me: '' There are cameras, I don't want any gesture of complicity. '
'”Eric Zemmour recounts the scene in his new book,
La France did not say its last word
(Rubempré).
That morning, December 12, 2014, on the strength of his editorial successes and his commitment to the union of the right, he debated on RTL with the former presidential candidate of the Front de gauche.
Seven years later, they meet face to face this Thursday evening on BFMTV.
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According to Zemmour, Mélenchon himself proposed the 2014 confrontation, as one chooses his best enemy.
On the air, the atmosphere is harsh.
The links seem to be broken.
Nothing is like before.
In 2010, Mélenchon could still vigorously defend Zemmour on iTélé after his controversial remarks.
“
This guy is not a racist
,” he said of the polemicist,
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