Police violence: Rachida Dati's tears on the set of “Clique”

A very rare image. Often presented as a hard and cold politician, Rachida Dati split the armor on the set of "Clique" this Tuesday evening. While the show presented by Mouloud Achour on Canal + returned to the debate on police violence which currently adds the United States and the rest of the world since the death of George Floyd during his arrest by the police, the mayoral candidate from Paris suddenly appeared very moved.

"When I saw the parents of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, I saw mine. I have experienced so much. I am not a victim."

The former Keeper of the Seals @datirachida moved to tears on the #CLIQUE set. pic.twitter.com/tItkk5NgU6

At the end of a report on Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, these two young dead electrocuted in 2005 in Clichy-Sous-Bois while they were trying to escape a police check and whose disappearance had triggered major riots in suburb, the one who was an advisor to the Minister of the Interior then appeared with tears in her eyes on the screen.

"I have experienced so much"

"When I saw the parents, I saw mine," explains Rachida Dati, referring to a meeting between the families of the young victims and Nicolas Sarkozy, then stationed in Beauvau. "I wanted these parents to have an explanation," she says again. And Mouloud Achour rightly observes: "It is the first time Rachida Dati that I see you moved".

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"We are in a society where when emotion overflows, we say that you victimize yourself," explains the former Keeper of the Seals. I have experienced so much. I am not a victim, “then launches very touched Rachida Dati, before explaining having indirectly dealt with police violence when she was still a lawyer.

“When I saw George Floyd under this policeman's knee, I couldn't finish the video. Because I saw young people (she blows) who were arrested and who did not return. ” The current mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris explaining that he received frequent telephone calls from his mother at that time so that she could help relatives: "I had started working in Paris and my mother called me, she said to me, there is such and such a son who was embarked, we have no news, come. I took the TGV, I got off at Châlons, I wrote letters and letters and letters ”.