2023-06-17 18:40:56
The former presidential candidate had come to sign his latest book in a hotel in the city of Brest, Saturday June 17, before the session was disrupted. Clashes broke out on the sidelines of the latter between supporters of the far-right polemicist and opponents of his arrival, leading to the arrest of two people and their placement in police custody in the afternoon, confirmed the sub-prefecture at the end of the day.
About 300 people, including around 60 members of the ultra-left, had gathered at the beginning of the afternoon at the level of the town hall, before going in front of the Oceania hotel, a few hundred meters away, where was organized the signing session of Eric Zemmour. Arrived in front of the hotel, the demonstrators exchanged insults with around thirty sympathizers of the founder of the far-right party Reconquest!, before the blows and throwing of projectiles burst out.
During these clashes, a demonstrator was injured with glass by kicking a window and a supporter of Mr. Zemmour was injured in the forehead, said the sub-prefecture. The two demonstrators taken into custody were arrested when they threw a barrier on a window of the hotel. The police then dispersed the demonstrators and set up a perimeter around the establishment.
Mr. Zemmour challenges the sub-prefecture
“When I arrived at 1 p.m., the first antifas started insulting and threatening me, the police did not intervene”Mr. Zemmour told Agence France-Presse. “They waited 15 hours for the antifas to charge with savage violence”he continued, rejecting all “confrontation” between supporters of the two camps, but rather evoking “deliberate, violent, savage aggression”.
According to him, the sub-prefecture “didn’t do his job” et “is unworthy”. “Either it is political, out of hostility. Either it is negligence and mediocrity. And in both cases he [le sous-préfet] is guilty”he added again, asking “explanations and sanctions”.
The signing session of the former polemicist of the Figaro and CNews continued normally in the middle of the afternoon, its approximately 100 to 150 supporters entering and leaving the hotel under the protection of the police, the sub-prefecture said. The far-right politician, whose signing tour has been accompanied by demonstrations by opponents for three months, said he wanted to continue his tour “until the holidays”.
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