A choice that caused a lot of reactions… Friday January 2, 2009, Rachida Dati became a mother for the first time. To pay tribute to his mother, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris chose to call her daughter Zohra, a first name of Arabic origin which means flower, luminous whiteness. At the time, Éric Zemmour estimated, Monday September 12, 2016 on LCI, that this first name was inappropriate “with the History of France”. Tuesday November 14, 2023, on the set of Daily on TMCthe politician returned to the violence of the remarks made by the president of the Reconquest party. “No one came forward to say that it was disgusting“she confided, before remembering: “I remember, I had an interview with Jean-Michel Aphatie on RTL to denounce him, it didn’t shock anyone. When I gave birth, I called Zohra my daughter because I loved mom. And as Azzedine Ahmed-Chaouch’s mother rightly says, in our families, giving a first name carries something with it..
Rachida Dati persists and signs
This is not the first time that the councilor of the Greater Paris metropolis has stepped up to the plate. Tuesday September 13, 2016, it’s on the set of BFMTV that she had responded to Eric Zemmour’s comments. “He needs treatment, it’s pathological! Do you find it scandalous to name one of your children after your mother? I loved Mom who passed away too soon. I have a little girl, I called her mom. Like millions of French people do and like it happens every day.”, she assured. Tuesday November 14, 2023, still on the Yann Barthès set, Rachida Dati was also outraged following comments made by Jean-Michel Apathy after she said she received widespread criticism when she became justice minister in 2007. “You have blurred the lines, if I may say so, you have become minister of a right-wing President of the Republic. And not of just anyone since it was about Nicolas Sarkozy who, on the Argenteuil slab, was talking about scum, so that blurred all the lines a little”he blurted.