“He will be a dad in 2022”, title Close this week. In One, Eric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo. Lawyers for the far-right polemicist have announced their intention to sue the magazine, which claims in its issue published Friday that his advisor Sarah Knafo is expecting a child from him, after a failure Thursday to ban the publication of the magazine people.
” The magazine Close has just published, against all the rules of journalistic ethics, an article seriously undermining the privacy and image rights of Mr. Éric Zemmour and Ms. Sarah Knafo ”, wrote in a press release Me Olivier Pardo and Laurence Dauxin -Nedelec, lawyers for the putative presidential candidate, as well as Me Simon Olivennes, adviser to Sarah Knafo.
“Our customers immediately take legal action,” they add. Me Pardo told AFP that he would file “a summons for violation of privacy on Monday or Tuesday”. “Whatever happens, always and everywhere, I will jealously and fiercely defend my privacy and that of my loved ones. Public life, yes. Voyeurism, no. Sorry for the perverts, ”said Eric Zemmour in a tweet.
An attempt to ban the publication of the number
In its issue published on Friday, the magazine displays a photo of the polemicist walking in the street, arm in arm with his advisor. On Thursday, Sarah Knafo’s lawyer had subpoenaed Close in summary proceedings to urgently obtain the ban on this number, information revealed by the Point.
But this request was ruled inadmissible by the court, which ruled that Sarah Knafo had presented “no objective evidence relating to the article and its content” allowing “to establish the publication in the magazine Close to be published on November 26, 2021 of an article which would undermine the respect due to the privacy of the plaintiff’s private life ”, with the exception of an SMS warning her of the publication of this number, according to the judgment consulted by AFP.
Mid-October, Eric Zemmour had already sued the magazines Paris Match, Close and here is for invasion of privacy. He assigned in particular Paris Match, which made its Une at the end of September on “his very close advisor” Sarah Knafo, and here is, for photos and a text on the proximity between the two.