The far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour sued the magazines Paris Match, Closer and Here last week for invasion of privacy and a first procedural hearing will be held on January 3, AFP learned Monday from his lawyers and the Nanterre court.
The date for a possible trial will be fixed later.
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The 63-year-old polemicist assigns Paris Match, who made his Une at the end of September on “
his very close advisor
” Sarah Knafo, and Here, for photos and a text on the proximity between the two dating from the end of September also.
The magazine Closer is attacked for "
stolen photos
" of Eric Zemmour and his wife Mylène Chichportich, had indicated in a press release on October 4 the lawyers of the potential presidential candidate, Laurence Dauxin-Nedelec and Olivier Pardo.
"
No invasion of the privacy of Mylène Chichportich and Eric Zemmour as well as that of their children will be accepted,
" they said.
