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Opponents and supporters of the ultra-legal publicist Eric Zemmour, who is running for president of France, on Sunday, December 5, staged several skirmishes at his first campaign rally near Paris. As a result, several people were injured, including journalists and Zemmur himself, who received a slight injury to his wrist: one of those present roughly grabbed him at the moment when he was heading to perform on stage.

Several thousand people came to the rally in the city of Villepinte to support the 63-year-old Zemmur. “If I win the elections, this will be the beginning of the reconquest of the most beautiful country in the world,” he said. Zemmour is going to call his new party Reconquete. This name can be translated into Russian by the word of the Spanish origin Reconquista, meaning “reconquest”.

Hostility towards Muslims

According to Zemmour, modern France suffers from immigration, which must end. The publicist speaks out against immigrants from Islamic countries and has already been prosecuted twice for inciting hatred of Muslims.

Passions flared up during the pre-election rally when several activists in T-shirts with the slogan “No to racism” got up from their chairs in the hall. As reported by the AFP agency, immediately after that, Zemmur’s supporters pounced on them and began throwing chairs at them.

Marine Le Pen’s main rival

New to politics, Zemmour polarizes French opinion. More than 400 journalists were accredited for his first campaign rally. At the same time, according to the prefecture of Paris, in the capital of France on that day there were protests against this presidential candidate with the participation of 2,200 people. Dozens of trade unions also supported them.

Zemmur announced his intention to participate in the presidential elections on November 30. In France, many consider him to be the main rival of the former chairwoman of the National Rally Party, who temporarily left the post to run in the presidential elections, Marine Le Pen.

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