Éric Zemmour fined €10,000 for racist tirade

A court has found the far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour guilty of racist hate speech for a tirade against unaccompanied child migrants.

In September 2020 Zemmour told the CNews channel that child migrants were “thieves, killers, they’re rapists. That’s all they are. We should send them back.”

Zemmour, who is struggling to assemble the endorsements from elected officials he needs to compete in April’s presidential vote, was fined €10,000 ($11,400) by the court. Last year, Zemmour claimed the case was “nothing other than another attempt to intimidate me”, saying “they won’t shut me up”.