Polemicist Eric Zemmour said on Saturday on the sidelines of a trip to London "
not to know
" ultra-right activists targeted by an investigation, who claimed to have come to the inauguration of his team's headquarters in Paris.
“
I don't know these people and I don't know what you are talking about,
” the putative French presidential candidate told the press after a visit to the British Parliament.
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“
In any case, people who love me are not trying to prevent the meeting of another candidate.
I don't have people like the antifas who break everything to prevent me from speaking,
”added the polemicist sometimes confronted with rooms that refuse him.
His planned conference in London at the Royal Institution on Friday evening was canceled by the latter and was finally held in a hotel.
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Eric Zemmour was questioned about members of the small group of the Telegram channel "
Les Vilains Fachos
" (LVF), who are the subject of an investigation for death threats and incitement to hatred or violence, for having published a photomontage representing several people, including the presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), targeted by a firearm.
Members of LVF told the media analysis site Arrêt sur images (ASI) that they were present at the inauguration at the end of October of the HQ of Eric Zemmour's team rue Goujon, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, photo and recording in support, ASI reported on Friday.
They claim to have greeted and known Stanislas Rigault, the president of Generation Z, because two members of LVF would have studied with him at the Catholic Institute of Vendée.
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The entourage of Eric Zemmour clarified that Stanislas Rigault "
does not know them absolutely
".
“
We have not yet identified who they were.
So the only possibility is that people campaigning for Generation Z hid a commitment of this type from us,
”we added.
On the LVF photomontage, we recognize in addition to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the editor-in-chief of StreetPress, a caricature of the prophet Mohammed, Anne Frank, the journalist Taha Bouhafs and the caricature of the LFI deputy Danièle Obono, which earned the newspaper
Valeurs current
a conviction for public insult of a racist nature.
