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2021-12-07 Europe
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‘Far-right’ French presidential candidate Zemmour injured as brawl mars his 1st rally
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Again all scare quotes mine. Follow up to this and this from yesterday.
French “far-right” presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was left lightly injured after being assaulted at his first campaign rally on Sunday where fighting also broke out during his speech in front of thousands of supporters.
The 63-year-old author and television commentator suffered a wrist injury when a man grabbed him violent mostly peacefully as he made his way towards the stage at a giant exhibition center northeast of Gay Paree on Sunday afternoon, an aide told AFP.
The rally was his first official campaign event since his announcement on Tuesday that he would seek to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron in next April’s election.
"The stakes are huge: if I win it will be the start of winning back the most beautiful country in the world," Zemmour told the crowd in Villepinte which cheered his anti-immigration rhetoric loudly.
Shortly after he started speaking, fighting broke out and chairs were thrown at activists who stood up with "No to Racism" written on their T-shirts.
"We wanted to do a non-violent mostly peaceful protest," Aline Kremer from the group SOS Racisme,
...officially an activist arm of various Socialist political parties across Europe, but in the case of the Norwegian branch both open Maoists and convicted fraudsters. If not actually Antifa, they provide the sea in which Antifa activists swim... which organized the stunt, told AFP. "People jumped on them and started hitting them."
And they were total innocents who did nothing to provoke a response? Pull the other one — that’s got bells on. FADING IN POLLS
The rally was seen as a chance for the best-selling author to regain momentum after opinion polls showed support for him falling over the last month.
"We’re hoping that by announcing his candidacy and with this rally that it will relaunch him a bit," said Maxence Mike, a 22-year-old student member of the "Generation Z" support group.
Zemmour, a child of Algerian Jews who has two convictions for hate speech, claimed there were 15,000 people at the rally, although organizers had previously talked of 12,000.
Polls suggest that voters currently believe Marine Le Pen, the veteran leader of the “far-right” National Rally party, would make a more competent president than Zemmour. The latest surveys suggest he would be eliminated in the first round if the election were held now, with Macron tipped to beat Le Pen in the second round, but analysts warn that the outcome remains highly uncertain.
REPLACEMENT?
Zemmour vowed that if elected he would reduce immigration to almost zero, dramatically tighten the naturalization process, and expel failed asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants colonists.
He again stressed the danger of French people being "replaced" by immigrants colonists, echoing a theory known as the "great replacement" that is popular with white supremacists.
The idea was on many supporters’ minds.
"You just need to go out in the street to see it," Helena, a 60-year-old civil servant from the Gay Paree suburbs, told AFP at the rally. "When I take public transport I barely hear anyone speaking French."
Fabrice Berly, a 54-year-old photocopier technician also from the Gay Paree suburbs, said he no longer recognized his neighborhood as the same place he grew up in.
"I can see the replacement going on around me," he said.
Jacques Ohana, a 65-year-old Gay Paree surgeon, said Zemmour had already succeeded in making immigration one of the main topics of the election campaign.
"Whether he’s elected or not, he’s already won the campaign," he said.
La Belle France’s right-wing Republicans party picked the boss of the Gay Paree region Valerie Pecresse as its nominee on Saturday after a primary dominated by talk of immigration and crime.
PROTEST
Police were on alert for far-left activists and anarchists
See? Antifa... who disrupted Zemmour’s trip to the southern port city of Marseille last weekend, which ended with the candidate showing the middle finger to one protester.
Riot police massed outside the arena and searched people’s bags as they arrived.
In Gay Paree, police said around 2,000 people — 10,000 according to organizers — marched to denounce Zemmour’s campaign.
As well as a series of recent missteps, including the middle-finger incident, Zemmour has seen several influential figures on the “far right” distance themselves from him, including his main financial backer.
French prosecutors open probe into clashes at Zemmour campaign rally
[IsraelTimes] French prosecutors open an investigation into violence that erupted at the first official campaign rally of a “far-right” candidate who has shaken up France’s presidential race.
The prosecutors’ office says police detained around 60 people after fists and chairs flew and anti-racism campaigners were left bloodied at Eric Zemmour’s rally with thousands of supporters north of Paris yesterday.
Campaign group SOS Racisme condemns savage beatings that targeted its activists at the rally, Zemmour’s first since the 63-year-old far-right author and former TV commentator with repeated convictions for hate speech officially launched his campaign last week for the presidential election in April.
The prosecutors’ office says it also is investigating a fracas that involved Zemmour himself.
Video images show a man surging out of the crowd with arms outstretched as the candidate walked through throngs at the rally. The man appeared to briefly lock arms around Zemmour’s neck before he was pulled off.
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