court ruling 2019: Alleged Incitement to hatred of Muslims On 25 September 2020, the Paris court sentenced Zemmour to a fine of 10,000 euros for "insult and incitement to hatred", because of the comments he had made in September 2019 during a speech to the against Muslims and immigration, at the opening of the right-wing convention organised by relatives of Marion Maréchal. In its judgment, the court said that, "by distinguishing among the French all the Muslims opposed to the 'ethnic French' and by designating them, as well as the Muslim immigrants living in France, not only as criminals perpetrators of the terrorist attacks of 2015 but like former colonized people who became colonizers", the remarks made "constitute an exhortation, sometimes implicit and sometimes explicit, to discrimination and hatred towards the Muslim community and its religion". Zemmour appealed. The appeal hearing took place on 2 June 2021. The Paris Court of Appeal acquitted him on 8 September 2021. In the reasons for its judgment, the court of appeal ruled that "none of the statements pursued target all Africans, immigrants or Muslims but only fractions of these groups". "There is no justification for remarks targeting a group of people as a whole because of their origin or their belonging or not belonging to a particular ethnicity, nation, race or religion," the court added, "from where it follows that the prosecuted offenses are not constituted." The general prosecutor's office has filed a cassation appeal, which is pending. Prizes 2010 Prix de la Liberté d'expression (Enquête & Débat) 2010 Prix du livre incorrect 2011 Prix Richelieu (Association de Défense de la langue française) 2015 Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand (Académie Chateaubriand) Publications Non-fiction 1995: Balladur, immobile à grands pas, Grasset 1998: Le Livre noir de la droite, Grasset et Fasquelle 1998: Le Coup d'État des juges, Grasset et Fasquelle 1998: Une certaine idée de la France, collectif, France-Empire 2000: Les Rats de garde, in collaboration with Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Stock 2002: L'Homme qui ne s'aimait pas, Balland 2006: Le premier sexe, Denoël, – republished J'ai lu, 2009 2010: Mélancolie française, Fayard /Denoël – republished Le Livre de Poche, 2011. 2011: Z comme Zemmour, Le Cherche midi 2012: Le Bûcher des vaniteux, Albin Michel 2013: Le Bûcher des vaniteux 2, Albin Michel 2014: Le Suicide français, Albin Michel 2016: Un quinquennat pour rien, Albin Michel 2018: Destin français, Albin Michel 2021: La France n'a pas dit son