On the market, the former candidate for the French presidential election was awaited by around fifteen people who called him “fascist” and shouted “Leave here!” », According to an AFP correspondent photographer.
“There were jets of water and throwing of eggs and a woman tried to push him,” a police Source told AFP, adding that “the incident was very brief.”
In numerous photos and on a video from Corse-Matin, we then see Eric Zemmour turn around and punch the back of the opponent’s head. “They are idiots, violent people who think they are intimidating me. But I’m like the Corsicans, I’m not intimidated,” he told Corse-Matin. The far-right leader has made known his intention to file a complaint, indicates -.
“He got away from a woman who came to attack him. (…) He absolutely did not show any violence,” assured one of his collaborators on Twitter/X. “He did not lose his nerve, he was attacked by around fifteen antifas, who threw an egg on his head and who pushed him,” explains Eric Zemmour’s team to - . “On the video, he pulls away from the young girl and turns around in a defensive reflex. All this happens in a quarter of a second. And Eric Zemmour is regularly threatened with death. »
“This is the true face of the far left, of small violent groups, who truly want us dead,” reacted immediately the leader of the far-right party on his X account (ex-Twitter).
Mr. Zemmour, convicted several times for provoking racial hatred, continued his stroll, always followed by the same fifteen people kept at a distance by a CRS cordon. Sometimes warmly welcomed on certain stalls, he was encouraged to look elsewhere on others.
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