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Éric Zemmour
Éric Justin Léon Zemmour is a French far-right politician, essayist, writer and political journalist and pundit. He was an editor and panelist on Face à l'Info, a daily show broadcast on CNews, from 2019 to 2021. He ran in the 2022 French presidential election, in which he placed fourth in the first round.
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culture · French politician and writer (born 1958) · writer · editorial columnist · journalist · columnist · pundit · activist · politician · also Éric Zemmour, Eric Zemmour, Éric Justin Léon Zemmour, Zemmour
Born 31 August 1958 · Q288477
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2026· 2 entries
“feel colonised … and have an existential fear of disappearing”
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2025· 1 entry
Appeared in London for Tommy Robinson's Unite The Kingdom rally
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2023· 3 entries
“Je profite de ce nouveau réseau social pour saluer tous les français de souche ici présents”
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“Bonjour à tous, paix et amour”
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Claimed: “Deux tiers des immigrés légaux en France chaque année sont musulmans” — rated Trompeur by Factuel AFP.
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2022· 4 entries
The Jerusalem Post Blogs: Éric Zemmour makes Jewish man’s death a national issue days before election
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The American Conservative: Éric Zemmour and the Algerian Question
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“a platform of ideas for the right”
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Zemmour claimed that French homosexuals were not imprisoned and sent to concentration camps, resulting in a lawsuit by gay rights groups
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2021· 8 entries
NBC News: Éric Zemmour been called racist and dangerous, and he's running for president of France
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Wall Street Journal: French Nationalist TV Host Éric Zemmour, Inspired by Trump, Surges in Polls
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Factuel AFP rated the claim “Le rappeur Youssoupha a été condamné pour menaces de mort contre Zemmour” Faux.
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Zemmour's show was receiving about 900,000 nightly viewers, ten times higher than in 2019
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Career landmark: president (2021).
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Zemmour was alleged by French gossip magazines to have impregnated his chief campaign advisor, Sarah Knafo
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A New York Times article described Zemmour's views as "hard-line
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Engaged in a national tour of France to promote of his new book, La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot
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2020· 1 entry
Whilst commenting on footage that showed four policemen hitting a black man in Paris, Zemmour responded to accusations of racism levelled at the involved policemen by saying "I can hardly see [them] getting up in the mor
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2019· 1 entry
As no clear candidate from the traditional right-wing parties had emerged in advance of the 2022 French presidential election
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2018· 2 entries
Put events from his own life story in the context of various historical events
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Career landmark: Participated in fête du livre de Renaissance catholique (tournament / event).
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2017· 1 entry
“Non-discrimination is misrepresented as a synonym of equality whereas over time it has become a machine to disintegrate the Nation, the family, society in the name of the rights of an individual king”
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2015· 4 entries
Awarded Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand (2015).
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Following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Zemmour was temporarily placed under armed police protection
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That "since Barrès and Maurras, no other intellectual, journalist or writer has had this status as a broker of far-right ideas with a very large readership"
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“Instead of bombing Raqqa, France should bomb Molenbeek from which the Friday 13 commandos came”
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2014· 1 entry
Zemmour published Le Suicide français ("The French Suicide"), which sold over half a million copies and remains his best literary success to date
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2013· 1 entry
Where he wrote regularly, including as a literary reviewer, until he took time off in September 2021 to promote his new book
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Prix Richelieu (2011).
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And once for hatred against Muslims in 2018 as well as once for inciting racial hatred for 2022
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And for incitement of hate against Muslims in 2018
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Prix du livre incorrect (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Zemmour was moved by Le Figaro to Le Figaro Magazine, allegedly after making controversial statements in other media, but in fact, due to his salary being considered too high for his modest weekly output
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2008· 2 entries
Following the publication of his novel Petit Frère, in which a Jew is attacked by a young North African in a parking lot, Zemmour admits to having been inspired by a news item that occurred five years earlier: the murder
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Published Petit Frère, in a limited run of 63,000 copies, in which he criticised "antiracist angelism"
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2007· 1 entry
Also came out in favour of the Thierry Mariani amendment, which would require genetic tests in order to qualify for family reunification
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2006· 1 entry
Published Le premier sexe ("The First Sex"), a book on what he considers to be the feminisation of society
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1994· 1 entry
Became a lead writer at Info-Matin, where he stayed for a year
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1986· 1 entry
On the politics desk at Le Quotidien de Paris, under the editorship of Philippe Tesson
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1980· 1 entry
And 1981) to gain admission to the École nationale d'administration (ÉNA)
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1979· 1 entry
Studied at Sciences Po (1979).
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-08-31.
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1952· 1 entry
Before the Algerian War, alongside their parents and siblings
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1940· 1 entry
That a million pieds-noirs, twenty years later, would have left Algeria to return to France
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