Faits saillants de l’actualité :
– Eric Zemmour reconnu coupable de diffamation envers Danièle Obono.
– Il s’en était pris à Mme Obono sur CNews en 2020.
– Eric Zemmour et le directeur de CNews condamnés à une amende.
– Pas de base factuelle pour corroborer les affirmations de Zemmour.
– Zemmour a déjà été condamné pour des propos similaires.
– Il a également été condamné pour injure homophobe.
Eric Zemmour, leader of the far-right Reconquête party and former CNews columnist, was found guilty of complicity in public defamation against deputy Danièle Obono (France insubordinate, LFI) on Wednesday, February 7, and was sentenced to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros by the Paris criminal court.
The facts date back to August 2020. During the program “Face à l’info” on CNews, hosted at the time by Eric Zemmour, the latter had attacked Mme Obono, who had been caricatured as a slave a few days before the show by the extreme right-wing weekly magazine “Valeurs actuelles”. The polemicist had accused the parliamentarian of “refusing to say “Long live France” on television”, “organizing meetings forbidden to whites”, and “expressing all her love for Mohamed Merah, who kills Jewish children “.
The publisher of CNews was also found guilty of public defamation and sentenced to the same penalty as Mr. Zemmour. Both men must also pay Mme Obono 1,000 euros in damages.
For the court, there is no “factual basis” to corroborate Mr. Zemmour’s claims. Therefore, “the defendants cannot benefit from the excuse of good faith”, emphasized the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial court. The court also ordered CNews to remove the video of the “Face à l’info” program where the “recognized defamatory” remarks were made within fifteen days of the date on which the tribunal’s decision becomes final.
The former far-right candidate in the 2022 presidential election and current president of the Reconquête party has already been convicted twice of incitement to hatred for remarks made in 2010 and 2016, and has several pending trials. In September 2023, Mr. Zemmour was also convicted in the first instance to a 4,000 euro fine for homophobic insult, for having declared in October 2019 on CNews that homosexual people had “enslaved” the state “for their benefit”. He has appealed this decision.
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