“An Anti-Zemmour Tax”. The idea was proposed in the form of an amendment by the green deputy Benjamin Lucas in the Finance Commission this Thursday as part of the review of the 2023 budget. The goal of the Yvelines deputy: “Move from 5.5 to 90% of the tax to distributors and publishers of television services (TST) for the dissemination of statements subject to conviction for incitement to hatred, violence or discrimination, complicity in racial slurs and incitement to hatred”, he explains to BFMTV.com.
In Benjamin Lucas’s viewfinder: “the Bolloré system that wants to make money with the extreme right.” And the “incarnation” of him, according to him: Éric Zemmour. The former debater was convicted in 2011 for inciting racial discrimination and in 2018 for inciting racial hatred for statements made on the CNews news channel.
For Benjamín Lucas, the extreme right “takes advantage of the fact that words of hate and racism have become an opinion like any other that can be expressed on television.” However, “racism is not an opinion, but a crime,” he insists.
“Republican Conscience”
This Thursday, the National Group, formerly the National Front, celebrated its 50th anniversary. In committee, Benjamín Lucas took the opportunity to wish them a “happy birthday” by presenting his amendment.
“With Jean-Marie Le Pen, they have some examples of media broadcasts of comments that fall within the law,” he slips to BFMTV.com, not without irony.
His amendment was finally rejected, but the former president of the Socialist Youth intends to present it again in a public session during the examination of the budget in the National Assembly. This will start on October 10.
Aware that the voices of the Nupes alone will not be enough, Benjamin Lucas hopes for a “republican awareness that we cannot let fascist and racist ideologies express themselves like the others.” “Emmanuel Macron was elected thanks to the Republican bombardment. Now we have to prove ourselves worthy of it,” he explains to his counterparts from Renaissance, the new presidential party. But his amendment again has almost no chance of being approved.
In any case, the sequence did not escape Eric Zemmour. “Taxes, denial, censorship… All the left to an extent!” He reacted on Twitter.
Source: BFM TV
