From pundit to president? The far-right rise of Éric Zemmour
Oct 15, 2021
3 minutes
By Angelique Chrisafis PARIS
He has been convicted for inciting racial hatred, attacked for claiming the Nazi collaborator Marshal Pétain saved French Jews rather than aiding their deportation to death camps, and was last week described by the French justice minister as a dangerous racist and Holocaust denier.
But Éric Zemmour, a far-right French TV pundit, is rising so fast in opinion polls for president that one recent survey found he could make the final round
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