Demonstrators come to disrupt a dedication by Eric Zemmour. The bookstore will be attacked, a person who came to buy a copy injured. PASCAL LACHENAUD/AFP
COUNTERPOINT – Éric Zemmour suffered the attack of one of his dedications and a nauseating allusion to his Jewish origin on a train. Both facts have been discreetly ignored.
Manichaeism is a very comfortable discipline. It suffices to decree that there is a camp of good and a camp of evil. And that everything is permitted to those who belong to the first and against those who belong to the second. Éric Zemmour has just checked it twice at his expense. Last week, in Brest, one of his signing sessions was interrupted by the intrusion of dozens of demonstrators who were hostile to him. and whose violence injured some of the buyers of the book. The media treatment reports “tension” between supporters and opponents of Zemmour. And, on a news channel, the former presidential candidate is asked if, in view of the incidents punctuating his travels, the problem would not come from his side. Is it so unthinkable to say that any violence against a political official or sympathizers is in itself condemnable? And that it is no less serious and even less justifiable if one condemns the ideas of personality…