Gilles Bouleau is a French television journalist who has presented TF1's weekday evening news, Le 20H, since June 2012 and is its editor-in-chief. Born in Paris in 1962, he worked for years as a reporter for TF1 and LCI and spent a decade abroad as a correspondent in London and then Washington. He headed TF1's special operations from 2011 before succeeding Laurence Ferrari as the evening news anchor.
We have documented 1 statement by Gilles Bouleau, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: Anchor and editor-in-chief of TF1's evening news, Le 20H, interviewing Zemmour on air
Condemned
Response to this claim
Éric Zemmour's convictions for racial insult and incitement to hatred are for opinion offenses, not racism, under a law that lets judges restrict freedom of expression.
“It is the application of the law ... you committed punishable offenses ... Racism is not an opinion. (Translated from French. Original: C'est l'application du droit ... vous avez commis des délits répréhensibles ... Le racisme n'est pas une opinion.)”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)TF1Info's clip of Gilles Bouleau questioning Éric Zemmour about his convictions on Le 20HPost on X, November 10, 2026, 9:45 p.m. CET, with a 1 minute 52 second excerpt of TF1's Le 20H
Why we used this label
The reference point is the remarks for which French courts have definitively convicted Éric Zemmour of racial insult and incitement to hatred. Bouleau tells Zemmour he committed punishable offenses and answers his description of them as an opinion offense by saying racism is not an opinion, which criticizes the remarks themselves as racism. He does more than dispute a description: he presents the convictions as the law applied to racist remarks.
Announcing his 2027 presidential run on TF1, Éric Zemmour said his convictions for racial insult and incitement to hatred were for an opinion offense under a law he would abolish. Anchor Gilles Bouleau answered that racism is not an opinion.
