In Calais, Éric Zemmour was heckled by anti-fascist demonstrators
The polemicist was welcomed by around thirty activists opposed to his coming to Calais on Wednesday. He was forced to cut short his visit, which recalls the failed visit to Marseille last December.
A misstep for a visit with high symbolic value. While Éric Zemmour first visited the former “jungle” of Calais on Wednesday, which counted up to 10,000 migrants, he had to cut short his visit to avoid meeting around thirty anti-fascist activists.
If the associations denouncing the arrival of the polemicist in the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais had been kept at a distance during a press conference of the candidate at the beginning of the afternoon, they were finally able to approach the restaurant in which he interacted with the police.
“People who prevent us from expressing themselves”
While the former journalist was supposed to go with journalists to “points of presence of illegal immigrants”, he finally gave up following his visit, leaving through a back door, before rushing into a car.
To the grandmother of Antoine Diers, son deputy director of campaign strategy.
“I don’t see demonstrators, I see people who avoid expressing ourselves. And so for me, that’s a problem for me. Further (from the candidate), yes it would be demonstrators, but there, in front of us, it’s is more than demonstrators”, regretted the lieutenant of the candidate at the microphone of BFMTV.
A complaint
The writer’s team filed a complaint against a journalist who, according to them, was responsible for the presence of the demonstrators.
“The collusion between certain journalists and the most violent far left is not only ideological. It is also concrete, assumed, aggressive and very dangerous for democracy and its defenders”, also tweeted Éric Zemmour.
Bad memories of Marseille and Nantes
This filing of a complaint aims to avoid new images of this type which have a bad effect while the polemicist has concentrated his forces on rurality in recent weeks, by moving in particular to medium-sized municipalities such as Châteaudun (Eure-et- Dormouse). A way according to his entourage to limit the risk of confrontation with militants and potentially tense exchanges with the inhabitants.
It is that the visit to Marseilles of the candidate last December, taunted in the district of the Basket by inhabitants then his finger of honor to a passerby who challenged him, remained in the memories. His trip to Nantes on October 31, where he had been welcomed by hundreds of antifas, had also been little appreciated by his staff.
In the latest Elabe poll for BFMTV and The Express, Éric Zemmour collects 13% of the voting intentions.