Communist candidate for French presidency targets right-wing polemicist
Oct 11, 2021
Communist candidate for French presidency targets right-wing polemicist — — -Brussels (Brussels Morning) Fabian Roussel, the communist candidate for next year’s French presidential elections, is seeking to broaden the country’s hate speech laws, in an effort to disqualify a right-wing rival, the controversial polemicist Eric Zemmour from the race. Roussel wants to make politicians convicted of racism or incitement to racial hatred, such as Zemmour, ineligible to contest presidential elections.
