Former Zebda Singer Slams Zemmour’s ’Racist Rhetoric’ Ahead of French Election

In an op-ed published by Libération, Magyd Cherfi attacked Eric Zemmour and addressed the "French who think they are more French than others and who watch Zemmour vomit his racist drivel with shameful eyelids." In the eyes of the author-composer of Algerian origin, the author of La France n’a pas dit son dernier mot "is the star of ignominy, the immigrant of the revanchists, the impotent, the cowards and the narrow-minded heterosexuals, [...] the Arab of the suffocated whites, the ousted aristocrats of ancient privileges".

On Tuesday, Magyd Cherfi expressed his exasperation on France bleu Occitanie. "Exasperation because 40 years ago, I was 20 years old. We saw the emergence of a monster called Le Pen. A monster for us, for people like me or for immigration. And forty years later, it’s a hydra that appears. With several heads, the mayor of Béziers, Zemmour of course, the niece Le Pen, the mother Le Pen, "the little girl", he notes.

For the one who uses violent words to respond to the potential candidate for the 2022 presidential election, "this filth deserves that we soil ourselves". According to Magyd Cherfi, we must not appease the climate. "We have to say that something serious is happening. I am the son of Algerians, and that at 83 my mother still fears that the National Front will come to her house to chase her, I’m starting to get tired of not being French enough after we’ve been "just" French," he fumes with anger, predicting the failure of Eric Zemmour if he were to run in the next presidential election.