After the Social Union for Housing on Monday, the National Housing Confederation (CNL) announced its intention to file a complaint against Éric Zemmour in a press release published on Thursday, after his comments on HLM. The far-right candidate notably compared Monday at the microphone of France inter low-rent housing to “land of Islamization of the country”.
“Our organization will never accept that the hatred of the racist candidate Éric Zemmour against the inhabitants of social housing, foreigners and veiled women, can be poured out with impunity”, declares the CNL in its press release, adding that “these scandalous remarks should never be trivialized”.
“The poor people (…) who stayed, who could not flee these HLMs which had become dens for kebabs and veiled women, not to mention drug trafficking (…)”, launched Éric Zemmour in particular, during an interview granted to France inter.
“an insult” to 11 million tenants
The Social Union for Housing (USH), which represents the HLM Movement, also announced in a press release on Monday its intention to file a complaint with the public prosecutor against the candidate of the Reconquest! for his “stigmatizing and misleading remarks about HLM organizations and their occupants”.
“The 11 million HLM tenants who live in social housing, the 80,000 employees and administrators who work daily to help low-income households cope with economic and social or security difficulties, are insulted by these comments from Mr. Zemmour. , which only aim to exacerbate societal tensions against them,” the organization wrote.
During the same interview, Éric Zemmour announced his intention to abolish the law relating to Solidarity and urban renewal known as SRU, which imposes a quota of at least 25% social housing in large municipalities that are part of an agglomeration. of more than 50,000 inhabitants.