On Sunday, December 5, Eric Zemmour, the writer, journalist, and television pundit who recently declared his candidacy for President of France, held a rally at Villepinte, in Seine Saint-Denis, for his supporters. He had just announced the formation of a new political party that he has calls “La reconquête,” an allusion to the Reconquista of Spain by Christians, who over many centuries managed to take back their land from the Muslims who had conquered it long before. About 10,000 people showed up to listen to their candidate. And there were others who showed up as well, but not to listen. They came instead determined to spoil the occasion, to prevent Zemmour from speaking or, if they could not prevent him outright, then they would create such a racket, including fighting with his supporters, that it would be impossible to hear him over the din they were determined to create. These far-left hooligans and bully-boys call themselves “antifas,” short for “anti-fascists,” and “peaceful protesters,” but in their storm-trooping attempts to silence everyone they don’t like, they show themselves to be as fascistic as they come, worthy heirs of Hitler’s Brownshirts and Mussolini’s Black Shirts. Chief among these “antifas” at the rally were members of the group SOS-Racisme, a so-called “anti-racist” group that likes to show up and disrupt the speeches of anyone they don’t like. These days, for SOS-Racism, a “racist” means anyone who expresses the slightest misgivings about the large presence of Muslims in France. It doesn’t matter that Muslims are not a race. Dare to question their sheer wonderfulness, and you are labelled a “racist,” permanently consigned to the Outer Darkness. The eloquent Zemmour, of course, drives them half-crazy with hate.
The security men at the Zemmour rally had to confiscate from 39 people, many of whom were members of SOS-Racisme, certain piquant items that have little to do with “peaceful protests.” Among those items that these “antifas” were attempting to bring into the hall were Molotov cocktails, bottles of acid, paving stones, rocks, knives, and at least one grenade. Strangely, very few French newspapers or other media mentioned this confiscation of potentially deadly weapons. Had those weapons been seized from Zemmour’s supporters, instead of from his enemies, it would have been all over the news.
As Zemmour walked through the crowd toward the platform in front, a man — reporters said he was an Arab — reached out, grabbed Zemmour, and put him in a headlock. In freeing himself, Zemmour injured his wrist. Doctors told him he should rest for nine days.
When Zemmour began to speak, the “antifas,” many of them members of SOS-Racisme, started to yell and scream to keep him from being heard. Some stood on their chairs. A dozen militants opened their shirts, revealing t-shirts that spelled out an anti-Zemmour message. Zemmour persevered. At some point, when La Marseillaise was being sung, a group of Muslims began to shout “Allahu akbar.” It brought to mind, naturally, that famous scene in Casablanca, where the French and the desperate refugees in Rick’s Café sing the Marseillaise so passionately and loudly as to drown out the German soldiers who, led by Major Strasser, had been singing “The Watch on the Rhine.” At Zemmour’s rally, those who sang La Marseillaise drowned out that handful of Allahu-akbaring Muslims. Too bad that scene wasn’t caught on camera.
Soon enough, real fights broke out between Zemmour’s supporters and those who were doing what they had come to do – yelling and chanting in order to drown out the candidate. Insults, then fistfights, and eventually, chairs started to be thrown in all directions. It’s unclear who started throwing the chairs, but I suspect it was the “antifas,” because left-wing sites reported only that “chairs flew through the air”; had it been Zemmour’s supporters who started the chair-throwing, such sites would certainly have wanted it known. One girl, with blood streaming dramatically from a minor head wound down her left cheek, refused to have a bandage put on, saying “Ne me soignez pas la tête, il faut que ça fasse des images,” which in rough translation means “No need for first aid to my head, we need to get some photos.” Zemmour’s opponents were doing whatever they could to make him and his supporters look bad.
Another telling episode unfolded when a girl, described as a “militant” of SOS-Racisme, was asked by a reporter: “What do you think of this flier sent out yesterday from SOS-Racisme, that says ‘Paris fera taire Eric Zemmour’ (‘Paris will make Eric Zemmour shut up’)? Isn’t that against the ‘freedom of speech’ that you claim you want to defend?” The girl, nonplussed, with a look of confusion kept repeating under her breath only “I don’t know. I’m not informed. It’s not my job to talk about that.” (In French: “Mais interrogée par le duo Marschall / Truchot sur une affiche de SOS Racisme demandant hier de ‘faire taire Eric Zemmour,’ la jeune est restée sans voix répétant en bouche ‘je ne sais pas’, ‘je ne suis pas au courant,’ ‘ce n’est pas à moi de dire ça.'”)
About that damage to his wrist, and the nine days of doctor-recommended rest: assuming he takes that advice, he’ll be able to tape campaign speeches to his heart’s content, far from SOS-Racisme’s ignoble strife, with those screaming recruits from SOS-Racisme, those fistfights, those flying chairs, and that winsome face deliberately kept smeared with blood for the photographers.
Fred Alan Medforth says
The French socialist presidential candidate, Anne Hidalgo, compares the situation of Muslims today with the fate of the Jews in the 1930s
https://medforth.biz/the-french-socialist-presidential-candidate-anne-hidalgo-compares-the-situation-of-muslims-today-with-the-fate-of-the-jews-in-the-1930s/
mortimer says
Total balderdash! No one wishes to harm Muslims. They just want an end to Sharia supremacism. Why can’t Muslims stop trying to take over France?
bill says
It is like the story of the scorpion and the frog, it is what they do
fadeye@yahoo.com says
LOMFL! The german nazis were SUPPORTED by the mozlems! F the crybullies!
john smith says
For a true comparison she ought to compare muslims, to Nazi’s, that ran the Jewish death camps.
mortimer says
RECONQUËTE !
This is a declaration of war against SHARIA SUPREMACISM.
mortimer says
Zemmour and all his team should wear bullet-proof vests and neck guards against knife attacks. They are very brave.
God protect them.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Block the far left press’ cameras, then put a vicious beatdown on these fascists with the chairs and your fists! #MoreBrokenBonesForAntifa!
tim gallagher says
I hope this politician does go well and manages to gain power. It is time the wishy washy politicians, such as Macron in France, were brushed aside by the populations of many western countries and the fightback against islam’s grab for power is started. Hopefully, enough of the population have woken up to the nature of Islam by now and they will put some tough leaders into power, not just in France, but in many western countries.
john smith says
I’m with you all the way on that one Tim. Lets hope the tide is about to turn in Europe.
tim gallagher says
Yes, it’s about time, john, that enough of the population in many of our western countries did wake the hell up and voted some politicians who are tough on islam into power. There seem to be so many very slow learners around, because there is, by now, so much evidence about what a menace to our way of life Islam, with all its barbarity, represents. Definitely time for the tide to turn.
Rufolino says
Zemmour is a “conviction politician” . He believes so forcefully in the things he is talking about that he makes his rivals look like political.casuists interested in nothing more than their own power. Zemmour is the most stimulating political activist to appear on the European stage in a long time. He offers the hope hat Europe has a positive future, he continually makes historical references which are so telling, and he makes tthinking people’s hearts beat faster.
tim gallagher says
He sounds like an impressive politician, Rufolino. Of course, in our democracies it is always a matter of whether the majority of the population of a country have woken up and will back the conviction politicians. I hope he goes well in the next election and can start to save France. With 8% Muslims in their population, France must be in quite a lot of trouble.
Rafael says
Terrorist antifa and other leftist scumbags of humanity will never talk about Christians and other non-Muslims living in Islamic countries. For example none of them complains when the terrorist pig who runs Turkey, Erdogan attacks and insults non-Muslims in his speeches as kafirs, but all of them applaud Erdogan and his jihad terroriat ideas. Leftists in Turkey are not different too. All of them are defending jihad terrorists and claim Muslims are the victims. I’m really sick of all of them. I’m sick of this world which insulting Christians, Hindus an all other non-Islamic religious people allowed. Terrorist-propagandist media never mentions about the Christian Genocide in Africa, as well as Turkey shamelessly and agressively denies the truth of Armenian Genocide and constantly attack Armenians as we saw last year. Christians are scapegoats in Turkey and other Islamic countries. It’s hard to take this truth but none of the governments care about persecuted Christians and other Infidels. Christianity was spread from the Middle East but today you can hardly find any of them in the region. Shameless Turkish government does its best to eradice un-Islamic cultures from the Middle East. You can hardly find any of these freaking concerned leftists to talk about this.
OLD GUY says
It is about time that someone stands up against the Islamic invasion of European countries. Good luck France.