Controversy, Eric Zemmour backs off about his comments on the victims of Mohammed Merah
After Eric Zemmour’s remarks on the choice of the burial place of his son and his two-grandsons, buried in Israel after their assassination by Mohammed Merah, Samuel Sandler demanded an apology from the polemicist. The still undeclared presidential candidate finally contacted him
The words were not spoken but Samuel Sandler saw the telephone exchange as “an excuse”. Monday, November 15 on the antenna of BFMTV, Samuel Sandler, father and grandfather of the victims of Mohammed Merah reported his exchange with the far-right polemicist.
It was a little surprising because it was almost a friendly conversation, about, not to say, the weather, but almost. And after, we went much more concretely. He asked me for my wish. My wish is that we no longer talk about my children, that we stop talking about the burial place of my children, that we also respect the victims a little.
Samuel sandler
BFMTV, Monday November 15
The victims of Mohammed Merah, “foreigners”
During October, in his program book, with a view to his candidacy for the presidential election of 2022, the polemicist Eric Zemmour draws a parallel between Mohammed Merah and his four victims killed, on March 19, 2012, at the Jewish school Ozar Hatorah , Jonathan Sandler, 30 years old, and his two young sons -Gabriel, 3 years old and Arié, 6 years old – and Myriam Monsonégo, 8 years old, creator of the controversy.
The family of Mohammed Merah asked to bury him on the land of his ancestors in Algeria, we also have that the Jewish children murdered in front of the denominational school in Toulouse had to them buried in Israel. Anthropologists have taught us that we are from the country where we are buried. Assassins or innocents, executioners or victims, enemies or friends, they still have to live well in France, to make garbure in France or other choose, but as regards to leave their bones, they did not choose France, foreigners above all and want to stay that way beyond death
Eric Zemmour
France has not said its last word
Faced with these remarks, Samuel Sandler had demanded an apology from the far-right polemicist. It took him more than a month for Eric Zemmour to take his phone to contact him. A telephone exchange “a little surprising” and full of “embarrassment”, according to Samuel Sandler. But since the beginning of the campaign of the regular of the CNews plateau, a controversy drives the other. After his writings on the Toulouse attacks of 2012, Eric Zemmour has to face the attacks on his communication operation during the commemoration of the Bataclan attack.
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