When formalizing his relationship with his collaborator Sarah Knafo on BFM TV this Wednesday, January 12, Éric Zemmour made a return to the past by evoking Christina Forsne, the Swedish journalist who had had a love affair with François Mitterrand. A relationship that remained secret at the time.
“Who is Sarah Knafo? », asked Bruce Toussaint directly to Éric Zemmour on BFM TV this Wednesday, January 12. “My collaborator, my companion”, replied the candidate for the presidential election before specifying that he “there would have been no campaign without Sarah Knafo”. The one who says “harassed” by the celebrity press then remembered on the set of Facing BFM of a more distant era when politicians lived their private lives more peacefully. “Me, I remember when I was a political journalist, I boarded the plane of François Mitterrand’s journalists during the 1988 campaign, there was the mistress by Francois Mitterrand, a young Swedish woman, journalist, who was pregnant with him, and I never wrote anything and nobody ever wrote anything about it”, observed Éric Zemmour, seeming to regret a time when it was easier to live loves kept secret.
The man who married Danielle Mitterrand in 1944 lived a passion that lasted fifteen years with Christina Forsne, between 1979 and 1994, while he was already living a love story with Anne Pingeot who gave birth to his daughter Mazarine. At this time, the journalist was a correspondent in Paris for everyday Aftonbladet and Swedish public television. At the time of their meeting during a congress of the Socialist International in Sweden, the Swedish speaker was only 31, while the French politician was already 63. The young woman has written several books, including two on François Mitterrand.
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“François Mitterrand was my dad”
In 1988, Christina Forsne gave birth in Boulogne-Billancourt to a boy called Hrav, who made a name for himself years later by entering politics in turn, at the age of 25.. ” I want to be judged for who I am, not who my father was. François Mitterrand was my dad », he explained in remarks reported by The Express in August 2014. His mother has never spoken publicly about the identity of his father.. A driver for François Mitterrand had claimed that the two lovers had ended their relationship four years before Hrav was born. For his part, a doctor of the former president had estimated that it was unlikely that he was the father of this boy, because the treatment he was taking could have prevented him from having a new child. But the main interested party claims to be the son of François Mitterrand. A possibility that has not yet been proven.
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