After being nicknamed “Corinne” by Eric Zemmour, Hapsatou Sy lived through hell Threatened with death, the 40-year-old entrepreneur was hospitalized. She tells in Le Monde…
Hapsatou Sy was hard hit by her collision with Eric Zemmour…to the point of being hospitalized. If the scene dates back to 2018, the stigmata of this episode are still very present. Remember, at the time, the spouse of Vincent Cerutti was a columnist for the show Thierry Ardisson, Sunday Earthlings. The man in black then received Eric Zemmour, who launched into a harangue in favor of the attribution of French first names to citizens. When she points out to him that her first name is Hapsatou, the polemicist replies, cash: “well your mother was wrong“. “What would you like my name to be?“, she then wanted to know. And the former columnist of We are not in bed respond: “Corinne. It would suit you very well“.
Hapsatou Sy, threatened with death
A stormy exchange that created a buzz and above all deeply marked the life of the former columnist. After this skid of Eric Zemmour, Hapsatou Sy received myriads of death threats, letters containing excrement, racist cartoons… She told in the aperitif of the world: “You wake up in the morning and you have hundred, thousand or even two thousand – one of the records – messages of insults“.
Hapsatou Sy, hospitalized after a burn-out
At the supermarket, she is often chased by onlookers who call her “Corinne”. Even the anesthetist who took care of her during thechildbirth of her second child, Isaac, in 2019, throws a “Hello Corinne!“. The torque is full.”My body let me down“, remembers in The world Hapsatou Sy, who then makes a burn-out until being hospitalized and March 2021: “You say to yourself: ‘Where is the meaning of my life?‘”.
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“I am coming out of six months of illness, touched by this evil that I thought stinky but painless“, declared the 40-year-old entrepreneur on Instagram in September 2021. It was at this time that she decided to leave Canal + and began his recovery.
Eric Zemmour, he does not seem to have let up. In his work, France has not said its last word, he makes a barely disguised allusion to this heated exchange with Hapsatou Sy. “Corinne, it was a first name of the working classes in my childhood, the first name of hairdressers or secretaries“, he writes. In September 2022, Hapsatou Sy must face in court the polemicist against whom she filed a complaint for “incitement to racial hatred“.