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ÉRIC ZEMMOUR – Éric Zemmour “condemned” this Wednesday, December 22 a video in which two individuals claiming to be their supporters train in shooting and in particular imagine targeting Emmanuel Macron and rebellious elected officials, and for which an investigation has been opened .
“You are not one of my supporters, nor of my activists, and even less of my friends. I condemn in advance everything you do in my name during my campaign. I do not want your support or your help, ”wrote the presidential candidate in a statement.
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The videos, revealed on Twitter by the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group, and by Mediapart, show a man wearing a “Ben voir” cap, Eric Zemmour’s tic of language erected as a slogan by his fans, exercising with a sniper rifle.
“Well let’s see friends, who are we going to bust? Of the young gaucho, of the young communist, of the young mental bougnoule ”, laughs the young man, before firing with a big caliber. Rifle in play, he then mimics surprise – “Ah, Emmanuel Macron!” – and fires a second shot.
In another video shot at the same location, another young man targets the ex-spokesperson for La France rebellious Raquel Garrido. Rifle in hand, he explains “training to hunt wild Garrido” before firing and then firing a second time, evoking her husband, the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière.
In the same sequence, the man openly imagines himself shooting “antifas and leftists”, as well as people of North African origin. “There are Algerian and Moroccan flags, I saw there, so we will hasten to shoot,” he says.
According to the newspaper Release, who had access to his private Instagram account, until recently he introduced himself there as “military” and “Catholic”.
A “pitiful spectacle” committed by “a miserable handful” of “idiots”
An investigation was opened by the National Pole against online hatred (PNLH), for “death threats and incitement to racial hatred,” the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP.
A police source said Tuesday that “the Pharos platform, responsible for the fight against illegal content on the Internet, (had) been seized after reports from Internet users”.
In his press release, Eric Zemmour is indignant at a “pitiful spectacle” committed by “a miserable handful” of “idiots”, drawing a parallel with the “hooligans”, who “do not go to the stadium for the beauty of the game, but for violence ”.
LFI MP Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido announced on Tuesday that they had filed a complaint for “death threats and provocation to the commission of a crime”.
“Today, the entire online fascosphere is targeting us one after the other, with a clear risk of taking action,” said Raquel Garrido during a press conference in Marseille.
Eric Zemmour responded to the two rebels by inviting them to ”(do) the same thing as (him): definitively denounce the antifas who harass me”, and who are, according to him, “thousands”.
“Declare publicly that you condemn them without appeal, whatever they do”, he continued, estimating that “the violence was always on the side of the extreme left, never of (his)”.
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