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Far-right French presidential candidate Zemmour fined for racist comments

French far-right party "Reconquete!" leader, media pundit and candidate for the 2022 French presidential election Eric Zemmour AFP - BERTRAND GUAY

The Paris Criminal Court has slapped French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour with a 10,000 euro fine for racist hate speech after he called unaccompanied child migrants "thieves, murderers and rapists."

Zemmour’s comments during a debate on CNews, a conservative French news channel in September 2020 sparked outrage. After the insult, he added: “That’s all they are. We should send them back.”

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