The politician evoked the anger of the organisation SOS Racisme by drawing a connection between immigration and crime.

Eric Zemmour, one of the most popular French right-wing politicians and a strong contender in the presidential race, has been cited to court for the second time in a month. As V4NA also reported, the Paris Criminal Court on 17 January imposed a 10,000-euro fine on Zemmour for inciting hatred back on September 2020, when in a television programme he called unaccompanied migrant minors criminals, rapists and murderers, who had no place in France. The verdict is not final because Mr Zemmour has filed an appeal against the decision. The politician, however, has become the target of a legal attack yet again. This time SOS Racisme, an NGO in the network of billionaire speculator George Soros has announced that it is report the politician to the police for making racist comments and inciting racial hatred.

The legal move comes because Zemmour voiced his view in the programme Public Senat saying if immigration is stopped, peace would return to the country. He said that crime would drop to a minimum if immigration was curbed, as prisons were full of migrants and their descendants. He cited Japan as a positive example, pointing out that the country had almost no immigration and its prisons were empty.

. @ZemmourEric estime que tous les délinquants en France sont des immigrés ou „des enfants d’immigrés” : „Allez voir dans les prisons françaises et vous verrez ! „, lâche-t-il. „Au Japon, il n’y a pas d’immigration, les prisons sont quasiment vides.” #BonjourChezVous pic.twitter.com/CCP0lCYvnA

— Public Sénat (@publicsenat) January 26, 2022

Eric Zemmour supported his opinion with statistics on Twitter. The first chart published by him shows that 55 per cent of prisoners held in French prisons are of African descent. The diagram below that indicates that some 37 per cent of the perpetrators of thefts and violent crimes on public transport across France are foreign nationals. This rate is staggeringly high in the Ile-de-France region around Paris, where 75% of perpetrators of violent crimes on public transport are foreign citizens. The third graph shows that the number of foreign inmates in prisons is steadily growing in France. Their rate was 18 per cent in 2010, which had risen to 25 per cent by 2021. The last chart shows that foreigners lead the statistics in all crime categories and they even top the list of unarmed robberies, committing 38 per cent of all cases in France.

According to Mr Zemmour, the link between immigration and crime is statistically indisputable. The right-wing presidential candidate believes that ending immigration would lead to a historic drop in crime in France and adds that he intends to be „the president of rediscovered peace” in the country.

Le lien entre l’immigration et la délinquance est statistiquement incontestable. La fin de l’immigration provoquera un effondrement historique de la délinquance en France. Je serai le Président de la paix retrouvée. pic.twitter.com/Y0A6zE8ruh

— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) January 26, 2022

On Twitter, the right-wing politician also said that if elected head of state, Salah Abdeslam, the main culprit accused in the 2015 Paris terror attacks, would never be released from prison and he would also abolish the system that allows for reduced sentences. He said that he would expel foreign nationals who commit crimes, the number of whom wind up in French prisons is estimated at 15,000.

Avec moi, Salah Abdeslam ne sortira jamais de prison. Nous supprimerons le régime de réduction des peines. J’expulserai les délinquants étrangers, qui sont 15 000 dans nos prisons.#BonjourChezVouspic.twitter.com/u42DiUKlZm

— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) January 26, 2022

Based on a Twitter post, the SOS Racisme NGO linked to George Soros, has lodged a complaint against Eric Zemmour for repeatedly drawing a connection between immigration and crime.

SOS Racisme porte plainte contre Zemmour, qui lie (encore) immigrés et délinquance https://t.co/9sk7zqkePA

— Le HuffPost (@LeHuffPost) January 26, 2022