He doesn't feel responsible.
Éric Zemmour was the guest of BFMTV and RMC this Tuesday morning.
The opportunity for the presidential candidate declared for a week to return to his very first campaign meeting, which was marked on Sunday by several incidents.
This Sunday, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), journalists had to be evacuated because of the hostility of the crowd - some testified to having been beaten.
Then, Eric Zemmour was grabbed by an individual as he crossed the room to go on stage.
He also lodged a complaint during the day.
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But the outburst of violence took place above all at the beginning of his speech, when SOS Racism activists attempted a happening by unveiling t-shirts with letters making it possible to form the message "no to racism".
In just a few seconds, people who attended Eric Zemmour's meeting beat them and threw chairs in their direction, until security evacuated them.
An investigation was opened by the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
"I do not want to calm the ardor of my supporters"
Asked about these facts, Eric Zemmour assured that he condemned "obviously all violence". Words very quickly qualified. “But you have to understand: there are people who come to provoke. They know very well that they are going to annoy the people who are there, ”he explained on BFMTV. He even said that this action, led by SOS Racisme, served to "show the media" that the supporters of the polemicist "are mean".
My supporters "will not be provocative, at the Mélenchon meeting with the message
No to Islamo-leftism
", he gave as an example.
"These people did not have to be there, I do not feel responsible in any way", summed up the candidate for the presidency of the Republic.
"If these people (the opponents) do not come" to his next meetings, the violence "will not happen again", explained the polemicist, wishing to recall that he himself had been injured in the wrist.
And to conclude: "I do not want to calm the ardor of my supporters".
An argument that swept aside, from this Monday, with the Parisian lawyer Patrick Klugman.
During a presidential campaign, "all politicians are used to having militant protests," he said.