Tonight, Aymeric Caron faces Eric Zemmour as part of a debate organized by Cyril Hanouna on C8. This is not the first time that the journalist has faced the now declared presidential candidate. And the exchanges had already been muscular.
“Face à Baba” is Cyril Hanouna’s new political program on C8. This evening, the host of Touche not at my post receives Eric Zemmour, now declared candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, to whom he proposed a series of 10-minute debates in front of other personalities. Among these, Aymeric Caron will be opposed to him. The two former columnists of We are not lying have already had the opportunity to express their differences of opinion, sometimes quite forcefully, in the past and Zemmour has also targeted him in the video. where he finally formalized his candidacy. We could see the face of Aymeric Caron at the time when the candidate spoke of “the good thinkers” who, according to him, are harming France.
In a video interview posted by The Parisian, the journalist Aymeric Caron took the time to react to these remarks, considering himself “surprised” to be part, like Yann Barthès, of the personalities singled out in Eric Zemmour’s campaign clip. “I noted that Zemmour wanted to incarnate a certain number of plagues, plagues by a few personalities. If I understood correctly, I am one of those personalities who are damaging France”.
“He is dangerous. He is a liar, a falsifier and a mythomaniac”
Aymeric Caron was subsequently expressed on the reasons which would make, according to him, Eric Zemmour refer to him in this way. “He and I shared fairly strong exchanges and that I have been one of those who have been saying for a long time, for almost ten years, that Zemmour is dangerous, that Zemmour is a liar, that Zemmour is a falsifier, that it is a false historian, that he falsifies the data which he uses to affirm such or such thing, that he is a mythomaniac. ” Here, the journalist refers in particular to the passage of Eric Zemmour on the plateau of On is not lying in 2014 where he took care to dismantle the argument of the polemicist. “I think it was one of the first times someone explained to his face that he was phony.”
“For me, Zemmour is a fascist”
In his quick analysis of Eric Zemmour’s presidential candidacy video, Aymeric Caron goes further and explains that “in the tools and images he uses, there are fascist references. clear, for those who still had doubts about it. ” The journalist concludes by stating clearly what he thinks of the candidate: “For me, Zemmour is a fascist.” He also specifies that being pointed out in this way reassures him somewhere: “The fact that he considers me one of his enemies is rather good news for me”.
A lively confrontation in We are not lying
On October 4, 2014, Eric Zemmour was on the set of the show On n’est pas couché (of which he was a long time columnist / polemicist) facing Léa Salamé and Aymeric Caron to discuss his book “Le Suicide Français” where he counted present the four decades which, according to him, are responsible for the deconstruction of France. Aymeric Caron spoke at length about the book but especially on what he calls “the Eric Zemmour method”: “Amalgamations, lies, approximations … This is the Eric Zemmour method that you illustrate perfectly in this book. ” The two men were notably opposed to Eric Zemmour’s sources and his way of citing them, or rather not citing them. “I don’t have to cite my sources” explained Zemmour, which annoyed Aymeric Caron: “Like that, it allows you to say absolutely what you want”. “I say whatever I want! Are we still in a free country?” asked Eric Zemmour, the former polemicist of ONPC.
Aymeric Caron had also had the opportunity to put Eric Zemmour in the face of factual inaccuracies in one of his columns on RTL where he mentioned in particular the number of foreigners and the number of foreign children living in France. The two men were then vividly explained, Aymeric Caron thus concluding about the veracity of the figures: “You are confusing everything because of your amalgamations, your approximations and your unsourced figures, Eric.”
Short biography of Aymeric Caron
Aymeric Caron is a French journalist and writer born December 4, 1971 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. After his baccalaureate, he went to Amsterdam for a year and then joined the Lille School of Journalism (ESJ) in 1995. Two years later, he did odd jobs for the television channels TF1, LCI and even France 3. It was in 1998 that he joined Canal + where, as a reporter, he went to various theaters of operations including Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2001, he joined the joint editorial staff of Canal and iTélé, merged by the Canal group for cost reasons. Later, he hosted the weekends at the 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. range from 2006 to 2008 before leaving the 24-hour news channel.
It was on the radio that he pursued his journalistic career, at Europe 1 more precisely where he replaced Marc-Olivier Fogiel in the summer of 2009 during his morning leave. From the start of the 2009 school year, it presents the morning weekends. In 2010, he became joker of Jean-Marc Morandini for his program Le Grand Direct des Médias. He left Europe 1 in 2011 and made a brief stint on the Direct 8 channel.
In 2012, he joined Laurent Ruquier in his program On n’est pas couché where he became a columnist and, with Léa Salamé, took over from Audrey Pulvar and Natacha Polony. Often criticized in his role as columnist, like many of his predecessors, he was replaced by Yann Moix at the start of the 2015 school year.
Animal activist, Aymeric Caron does not hide his political commitments. Vegan, the journalist published in 2013 “No Steak”, an essay on the relationship between humans and meat. In 2016, he also published “Antispeciesist: reconciling humans, animals, nature”. In 2018, he founded the ecological movement Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV) which he wants as an alternative to Europe Ecologie Les Verts.