The exchange of gestures with a passer-by became the icing on the cake at the end of Eric Zemmour’s unsettling visit to Marseille. Leaving the restaurant in the afternoon, a woman who passed a car, followed by a far-right polemicist, made an obscene gesture. The writer responded with the same gesture and the phrase “And deep down,” under the cheerful gaze of his advisor Sarah Knafo, according to an AFP photographer who witnessed the scene.
An “instinctive gesture” that Eric Zemmour “suggests”, although his entourage did not want to answer the question of whether this gesture was presidential. “Of course it makes someone real,” they replied.
The former journalist did not like the final of the election campaign. On Friday, he got off the train in Aix-en-Provence, where protesters were waiting for him. During the day, he walked for less than 15 minutes in the Panier district under the protesters’ slogans: “Zemmour, disappear, Marseille is opposed to racism.”
Your schedule for Saturday has been canceled. After finishing in second place in the polls, ahead of the clearly far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, Zemmour’s preferences either did not change or decreased depending on the polls.
When a young man made the same gesture from Zemmour to President Emmanuel Macron in 2018, the then-RTL columnist saw it as a “symbolic guillotine.” Macron “was humiliated … and for this reason France was humiliated,” he explained.
The reception that Marseille hosted Zemmour followed two days after ten mayors (Rennes, Montpellier, Reims, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse, Nantes, Arras, Nancy, Perigueux and the urban community of Reims) signed text no Peacecall for a “popular start” against Zemmur. “It’s time to collectively agree so that the campaign isn’t tinged with lies and hypocrisy,” they argue, noting that the controversial model is George Orwell’s 1984, “control of the past to control spirits.”
Zemmour is expected to announce his presidential candidacy in the coming days.
