Happy families? Emmanuel Macron’s married far-right rival, 63, and his 28-year-old pregnant PA appear in public after magazine reveals their romance
- The 63-year-old far-Right firebrand visited Marseille with Sarah Knafo, 28
- French magazine Closer had revealed details of their relationship on Friday
- Mr Zemmour looks likely to go head to head with Macron for the presidency
Married French presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour has been spotted with his assistant following the revelation she is pregnant with his lovechild.
The 63-year-old far-Right firebrand visited Marseille with Sarah Knafo, 28, over the weekend.
French magazine Closer had revealed details of their relationship on Friday after a privacy application was thrown out of court.
It ran the headline ‘Eric Zemmour is going to be a daddy in 2022’.
Next year is also when Mr Zemmour – who has race hate convictions – looks likely to go head to head with Emmanuel Macron for the presidency.
Married French presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour has been spotted with his assistant following the revelation she is pregnant with his lovechild
The 63-year-old far-Right firebrand visited Marseille with Sarah Knafo, 28, over the weekend
During his visit to Marseille on Saturday he responded in kind when a passer-by made an abusive gesture to him.
The incident was seized on by critics as a sign his campaign was beginning to implode.
But Mr Zemmour, who has yet to formally declare he is standing, is still polling well.
The magazine journalist turned TV pundit went on trial in Paris this month for ‘complicity in provoking racial hatred and racial insult’ after calling child migrants ‘thieves, rapists and murderers’.
A source close to Zemmour, who asked not to be named, told AFP that the gesture in Marseille was ‘instinctive’, an action for which he assumed full responsibility.
‘He told us “I was insulted, I was shown the finger so I responded”,’ said the source.
Mr Zemmour and Miss Knafo had complained of ‘invasion of privacy’ over the magazine article, but Paris judges ruled otherwise.
French magazine Closer had revealed details of their relationship on Friday after a privacy application was thrown out of court
The pair are extremely high profile, and were pictured over the summer in an intimate clinch as they swam in the sea.
In a previous issue in October, Closer featured a photo of Mr Zemmour with a picture of his wife, lawyer Mylene Chichportich, whom he married in 1982.
The couple have three grown-up children, and journalists claimed it was in the public interest to know about his affair with Miss Knafo.
Zemmour has yet to formally declare he is standing in the 2022 elections but intense campaigning has left little doubt over his intentions and some polls had suggested he could make it to a second round against President Emmanuel Macron.