(JTA) A Jewish journalist in France said all underage immigrants should be deported because they’re “thieves, killers and rapists.”
Prosecutors initiated a criminal investigation for alleged incitement to racist hatred against Eric Zemmour, a columnist and writer with ties to French far-right movements, on Thursday.
Zemmour had made his remarks a day earlier in a debate on the CNews television channel in the aftermath of the Sept. 25 stabbing of several people by a Pakistani national outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris. He said the alleged attacker, Hassan Ali, was under the age of 18 when he immigrated alone to France in 2018.
