Eric Zemmour tries to clean up his ranks. The presidential candidate “condemned” Wednesday videos in which two individuals claiming to be their supporters practice shooting and in particular imagine targeting Emmanuel Macron and elected Insoumis, and for which an investigation has been opened.
“You are neither one of my supporters, nor of my militants, 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 press release.
“Well let’s see friends, who are we going to bust?” “
The videos, revealed on Twitter by the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group, and by Mediapart, show a man wearing a “Ben voir” cap, a tic of language from Eric Zemmour 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 filmed in the same place, another young man targets the ex-spokesman of France Insoumise 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.
An investigation was opened by the National Pole Against Hate Online (PNLH), for “death threats and incitement to racial hatred,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office. 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”.
Zemmour compares them to “hooligans”
In his press release, Eric Zemmour is indignant at a “pitiful spectacle” committed by “a miserable handful” of “idiots”, drawing a parallel with “hooligans”, who “do not go to the stadium for the beauty of the game, but for violence ”. He also took the opportunity to respond to Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido by inviting them to “(do) the same thing as (him): definitively denounce the antifas who harass me”, and who are “in the thousands”. According to him, “violence has always been on the side of the extreme left, never on (his)”.