Time.news – Eric Zemmour, French journalist, essayist and polemicist who continues to grow in all polls on the first round of the 2022 presidential elections, despite not having announced his candidacy yet, is known for his positions considered extremist. The latest to cause a sensation, a few days ago, was the one on the new circular from the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, which aims to better care for transgender students: it is “criminal”, said Zemmour comparing the minister to the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known for the cruel experiments conducted on inmates in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In recent years, the journalist has stood out in particular for the statements about the Arabs and blacks present in France: in 2011 he was convicted of inciting racial discrimination for saying that employers “have the right to reject Arabs or blacks”.
In that year, commenting on some data on identity checks carried out by the police, he also stated: “Why are they checked 17 times? Because most of the traffickers (of drugs, ed) are black and Arab . It is so, it is a fact “.
Zemmour has also stated on several occasions that one should not give foreign names, such as Mohammed, to one’s children, because this has been foreseen “since the time of Napoleon and it is a rule that has always been applied, during the third republic, but also during the presidency of General De Gaulle”, observed the journalist.
Another issue on which Zemmour has been attacked is that of gender equality: a few years ago, during a televised debate, he stated that campaigns against sexism are “money thrown out the window”, adding that “at home, people do what they do. wants”.
On July 5, a guest on the CNews channel, he said: “Our armies have always run around in Italy because there the small states, which were very rich, were a temptation for the French state, whose troops were the strongest in Italy. Europe. So we spent the time attacking Italy, from Louis XII to Francis I, obviously up to Napoleon Bonaparte. I believe that at least northern Italy should have been French: in fact there is no difference between Milan and Nice, it is the same people, we find the same architecture, the same spirit. I think, therefore, that there should have been a great France, but let’s overlook the failure of my friend Napoleon “.
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