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Paris Prosecutor Launches Probe into Eric Zemmour’s Anti-Immigration Speech
Wednesday 2 October 2019, by
Three days after the highly controversial remarks made by the polemicist Eric Zemmour on immigration and Islam during the Convention of the Right, broadcast live on LCI, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday, October 1, the opening of an investigation for "public insults" and "public incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence".
In his speech, delivered at the Convention of the Right, organized by close associates of Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Eric Zemmour launched a full-scale attack against Islam.
The polemicist spoke of a supposed "great replacement" of the predominantly white and Christian French population by "Muslim immigrants".
"Will young French people accept living in the minority on the land of their ancestors?" Eric Zemmour asked during this Convention. The Brigade for the Repression of Crimes against Persons is in charge of this case.