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Who is Najwa El Haïté, the elected representative of Essonne who was burgled live?

2020-07-17T01:32:55.673Z


The attack on this elected member of Evry-Courcouronnes, while she was live on the radio, had frightened social networks. Launched in politics


On the video of her attack, Najwa El Haïté's eyes widen. She kept her phlegm for a few seconds, before jumping up and shouting "Hey! " . This July 10, it is live video on Sud Radio, in the middle of a debate on judicial "laxity". A man smashes his armored door with a hammer and kicks, enters his apartment and rushes to his laptop. The direct cuts.

"If I seemed so calm, it was due to a composure acquired in war zones, especially in Bangui, in the Central African Republic," said this Wednesday the deputy mayor (SE) of Evry-Courcouronnes, whom we met this Wednesday at the Neuer law firm in Paris.

The strings may appear thick. But this communications specialist masters them perfectly. Accused of having created a set-up to serve her purpose on justice, she did not support. Until responding directly to skeptics on Twitter with the photo of his complaint to the police station of the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

Paris, June 10, 2020. The elected official was caught live by a burglar who ripped off her computer.  

Committed at 18 to the Socialist Party

Everything was therefore true. His experience in Bangui, in the war zone, too. It was a few years ago, when Najwa El Haïté was a consultant in strategic communication to African generals and admirals. "My best years were exciting," she insists.

Her life has always fluctuated between her varied private professions and her elected mandates. This native of Rouen (Seine-Maritime), born of a father who was a shipyard welder and a housewife, joined the Socialist Party at 18. "It was Pierre Bérégovoy's brother who made me join it in 1995," recalls the woman who was then a student at the law school in her hometown. She is also active in the UNEF student union. "I wanted to promote equal opportunities," she explains. With my sister, our parents told us that we would have to work twice as hard to get out of it. "

"Najwa, Fabius would like to see you"

The Rouennaise then arrives in the capital to pursue a master's degree in business law. She joined the socialist section of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, where she remained secretary for two terms. Within this “jospinist (Liolen Jospin) and delorist (Jacques Delors)” stronghold, the election of Najwa El Haïté, with “fabusian” convictions, is out of place. So much so that the elected socialist Claude Bartolone slips a word to Laurent Fabius himself.

"I was 24 when I was told: Najwa, Fabius would like to see you ," she rewinds. He told me a sentence from Mitterrand: militant is good, but it is really useful to others when you are elected, it is better ”. For the young Najwa, it was a trigger: powered by Laurent Fabius, she joined the office of Didier Marie, socialist ponte of Seine-Maritime and became municipal councilor in Le Havre. In particular, she meets a certain… Edouard Philippe, then in the majority.

In 2011, Laurent Fabius supported Martine Aubry in the primary of the left. Najwa El Haïté then identifies another “dynamic” socialist whose republican discourse calls out to him. Her name? Manuel Valls. "He had read and appreciated my book on the National Front speech," continues the elected official. She dropped her duties in Seine-Maritime to become her communications officer and her pen at Evry-Courcouronnes. Where she still goes "every weekend" in her apartment in the Grand-Bourg district.

She refuses to follow Valls to the Ministry of the Interior

Manuel Valls makes her want to take an interest in secularism, a theme on which she will write a second book. When he reaches the Ministry of the Interior, he offers to follow him. She refuses. "I wanted to stay on the ground," she argues. His journey continues with two other mayors of Evry-Courcouronnes, Francis Chouat and now Stéphane Beaudet.

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Najwa El Haïté therefore officiates as the 15th assistant dedicated to the attractiveness of the territory and international relations. A plank ? "Not at all," she retorts. Evry is a very cosmopolitan city, with 67 ethnic groups. I noticed that its influence extended to the Central African Republic or to South Korea. We also have strong ties with Morocco, which helped finance the mosque. "

The future lawyer will be sworn in at the Paris bar at the start of the school year. The judicial machine is also "one of its hobbies". Does she still find her lax, after the lightning arrest of her attacker? "Not lax, but it lacks the means," she corrects. The police investigation was effective. Now, I'm waiting to see her sentence. Impressed by Eric Dupont-Moretti, she admires Jacques Vergès even more, who notably defended Klaus Barbie. "I like militant personalities," she says. I would love to be Jacques Vergès in the feminine. "

Source: leparis

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