French politician and writer
Éric Justin Léon Zemmour, born 31 August 1958, is a Jewish Algerian French politician, polemicist, essayist, political journalist and writer. A household name in his homeland, he gained international attention with the publication of The French Suicide, a best-seller book for which he was awarded the 2015 Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand. Zemmour also received the 2011 Prix Richelieu for the whole of his career as a journalist. Zemmour announced his candidacy for the 2022 French presidential election on 30 November 2021, running as an independent.
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Eric Zemmour is a man from the right who has never belonged to the extreme right, or to Mrs. and Mr. Le Pen's party. But he is someone who has the ideas of Geert Wilders about Islam and migration. We have the paradox that Marine Le Pen, who has been called the far right for the past 20 years, is being overtaken by someone who is much harsher and more pessimistic.
What else should we call the beheading of Samuel Paty a year ago or, say, the policewoman who had her throat slit in her own office? The sixteenth-century wars of religion also started little by little. It took fifty years for the struggle between Protestants and Catholics to erupt on Bartholomew's Night in 1572.