French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has come under fire after stating that reducing immigration to zero would decrease levels of crime, stating most criminals were migrants or from migrant backgrounds.

The “anti-hate” association SOS Racisme has stated they will file a police complaint against the conservative writer and television pundit over his remarks this week during a television interview on the programme Public Senat.

Zemmour claimed that “There will be almost no more [delinquency]” in France if immigration levels are reduced to zero and when asked by the interviewer if only immigrants were delinquents, Zemmour replied, “Yes. In any case, immigrants or children of immigrants,” Franceinfo reports.