Invited Saturday of the program "On is live" on France 2, to promote his new book France did not say her latest word, Eric Zemmour has once again created controversy.The essayist notably made a parallel between Mohammed Merah, whose family had made the request to bury him in Algeria (Editor's note: a request refused by the Algerian authorities), and the Jewish children whom he murdered before the schoolconfessional in Toulouse in 2012, buried in Israel.He judges that in both cases "they did not belong to France".
"Foreigners above all and wanting to stay beyond death"
Éric Zemmour made remarks made in his new work, an extract of which was read live by journalist Léa Salamé: "Mohamed Merah's family asked to bury him on the land of his ancestors in Algeria.We also knew that the Jewish children murdered in front of the confessional school in Toulouse would be buried in Israel.Anthropologists taught us that we were from the country where we are buried.Assassins or innocent, executioners or victims, enemies or friends, they wanted to live in France, make garbure in France or something else, but as for leaving their bones, they especially did not choose France, foreigners above alland wanting to stay beyond death ".
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"I don't blame families (...) I try to think rationally about the situation, "said the polemicist on France 2, while Laurent Ruquier criticized the chosen example to illustrate his point."I say there is a problem that arises for us (...) The French drama is that we no longer do French (...) This text is to say: look, we can no longer assimilate, it's sad ".
"An insult to our collective intelligence"
Declarations that obviously shocked.Xavier Bertrand reacted on Monday September 13, calling Eric Zemmour as "Grand Diviseur"."He had monstrous remarks on Saturday evening, speaking of victims of Mohammed Merah, of these children, who because they would not have been buried by their parents in France (...) their attachment to France would be in question, what a horror, "he said on BFMTV.
Contacted by La Dépêche du Midi, Franck Touboul, President of the CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions) Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées qualify the words of Eric Zemmour "indecent"."It is an insult and an offense to families, who are no less French than him.Eric Zemmour must not forget where he comes from, "he said."I also remember the choice of Madame Halimi, when her son Ilan was tortured and then murdered by the gang of the barbarians, to have her child buried in Israel, although she had nothing to do with the country, if it nis his Judaism.Because she feared that her son's burial was soiled once the murderers released from prison ".
Franck Touboul also recalls that the right to burial is an inalienable right, which cannot be discussed."The fact that Eric Zemmour sets up as a judge to find out who is a good Frenchman and who is not, is both an insult to our collective intelligence and the testimony of a great arrogance on his part", he declares, before concluding: "Regarding this attack and the victims, the only thing that must impose itself is respect and silence".
