Renaud Camus

In an interview published in April 2026, Renaud Camus stated that his concept of the 'great replacement' was also racial, rejected the idea that races did not exist and again used the expression 'genocide by substitution'.

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In an interview broadcast by Sud Radio in March 2022, Renaud Camus discussed the 'great replacement', colonisation, 'genocide by substitution' and 'ethnic cleansing'. Arcom issued Sud Radio with a formal warning for insufficient challenge to the statements, a measure whose circumstances were subsequently upheld by the Council of State.

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For several publications disseminated in 2017 and 2018, Renaud Camus was convicted in January 2020 of public incitement to hatred or violence and received a two-month suspended prison sentence. The Agen Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in February 2022 while reducing the sentence to one month, suspended.

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Renaud Camus was prosecuted for public insult of a racial nature (injure) over an April 2019 tweet about Africans. The Paris Criminal Court acquitted him in February 2021.

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For the 2019 European elections, the La Ligne claire list led by Renaud Camus advocated a programme including an end to immigration and 'remigration' measures, extending his 'great replacement' theory.

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Renaud Camus announced that he could no longer endorse his European election list after a photograph emerged showing his second candidate, Fiorina Lignier, in front of a swastika. Electoral timetable constraints nevertheless prevented the list's formal withdrawal.

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Following remarks made in a speech in December 2010, Renaud Camus was fined €4,000 for incitement to hatred against Muslims; the conviction was upheld by the Paris Court of Appeal on 9 April 2015.

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Passages from the diary La Campagne de France triggered major controversy over wording considered antisemitic. Fayard withdrew the book before publishing a revised edition with the disputed passages removed.

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