(Daily Sabah) French-Jewish author, TV personality and far-right figure Eric Zemmour has been fined 3,000 euros ($3,300) for provoking religious hatred after making anti-immigrant and Islamophobic remarks in 2016.
During a show broadcast on September 6, 2016, on the France 5 television channel, Zemmour had said he believed that Muslims should be given “the choice between Islam and France,” and that France had been “colonized” by Muslims for 30 years.
“In innumerable French suburbs where many girls are veiled” are playing a “struggle to Islamize a territory,” he had also said.
The Court of Appeal of Paris had convicted [Zemmour] over his hateful remarks on May 3, 2018.
