Rachida Dati invited to a rap show, the far right protests

The show, DVM Show, dedicated to rap and urban music, is broadcast live from Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris. “To the Ministry of Culture, you come with your equipment, you install everything, you come to do a DVM: the invitation is launched,” asked Rachida Dati.

While one of the presenters pointed out to her: “But we make noise, you know?”, the tenant of rue de Valois replied that “a Ministry of Culture without noise is not a Ministry of Culture”. In a message published on

THANKS #DVMSHOW to highlight young artists and talents.

Well done @Medjalive, Dadju, Tayc, for what you have done, for your courage and for your work. Proud of you #Aulnay.

️ “A Ministry of Culture without noise is not a Ministry of… https://t.co/nlI5N75hud

— Rachida Dati ن (@datirachida) February 13, 2024

“Rachida Dati must explain herself”

The sequence provoked angry reactions from the far right. “Rachida Dati must explain her hilarious presence yesterday at the DVM show, a program which permanently promotes the deal,” demanded the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.

The head of the RN list for Europeans also considered that it was the “den of an anti-Semite”, in reference to Freeze Corleone, a controversial figure in French rap who had been the subject of an investigation for provocation to racial hatred, finally dismissed.

Reconquest gets involved

Since Saturday, he has also been the target of an investigation for advocating terrorism after appearing to evoke the Nice attack of July 14, 2016 in a song. But if the sulphurous rapper participated in a previous show, filmed before the opening of this second investigation, he was not present alongside Rachida Dati Monday evening.

Eric Zemmour, for his part, called for “getting rid of” the Ministry of Culture “to create a real Ministry of Fine Arts and French heritage”. The head of the list of her party, Reconquest, for the European elections, Marion Maréchal, once again joked about “the government’s turn to the right”: “What would it be like with a turn to the left”, he said. -she asked.