The far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, convicted several times for incitement to hatred, again linked delinquency and immigrants this Wednesday on Public Senate.
According to him, there would be “virtually no more” delinquency with “zero immigration”.
Éric Zemmour has been convicted several times for his comments, particularly on immigration.
On January 17, he was fined 10,000 euros for incitement to hatred after calling unaccompanied migrant minors "thieves", "murderers", "rapists" on the CNews channel in 2020. He appealed .
“Do you really think that with zero immigration there will be no more crime?
“, questioned the journalist of Public Senate on Wednesday.
“Ah, there won't be any more, yes.
That, I am sure of it, ”said the presidential candidate.
" That is to say ?
Only immigrants are delinquents in this country?
“relaunched the interviewer.
" Yes.
In any case, immigrants or children of immigrants,” he said.
On Twitter, Dominique Sopo the president of SOS Racisme announces the filing of a complaint.
“New sequence of #racism at #Zemmour.
Sentenced for similar remarks in 2011, he will again have to deal with justice following the complaint that @SOS_Racisme filed today.
Clarification: there is no global correlation between the number of detainees & the weight of immigration”, he writes.
New sequence of #racism at #Zemmour.
Sentenced for similar remarks in 2011, he will again have to deal with justice following the complaint that @SOS_Racisme filed today.
Clarification: there is no global correlation between number of detainees & weight of immigration https://t.co/rUHWuIHDgk
— Dominique Sopo (@d_sopo) January 26, 2022
A claim without any official basis
This assertion of the presidential candidate is not based on any official document, the ethnic statistics which would make it possible to isolate the “children of immigrants” being prohibited in France.
The latest annual report “Insecurity and delinquency” from the Ministry of the Interior certainly reflects an over-representation of people of foreign nationality in the commission of certain crimes, but in no way that they are the only perpetrators.
According to this document, 38% of the presumed perpetrators of violent unarmed robberies are thus of foreign nationality, whereas they represent 7% of the population.
Among those implicated in burglaries, 66% are also of French nationality, 23% are from an African country and 8% are from another European country, according to the same report.
Éric Zemmour unfolded his program against immigration: "a referendum" to "change the legal framework", "the end of family reunification", a right of asylum limited to a "handful of people", the abolition of the "right soil", the expulsion of "foreign delinquents to their countries"...
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A reform around “self-defense”
On the subject of security, the candidate also specified the reform he intended to carry out in terms of “self-defense” and “right to retaliate”.
Éric Zemmour explains that he draws inspiration from the notion of “excusable defence” in Switzerland.
According to him, "there must no longer be any proportionality" of the threat, to be in a situation of "self-defense".
"The thugs must take their risks, if they attack, it is them who must be afraid".
“The robbed traders, the robbed citizens and the police in danger will finally have the right to retaliate against the thugs”, he said on Saturday during his meeting in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes).
Remarks deemed discriminatory made during this gathering also earned him two complaints from the community of travelers, reports Est Républicain.
