Rachida Dati interrupts Guillaume Roquette in the midst of a chronicle, on LCI, July 22, 2025
POLITICS – Even TF1, which is nevertheless part of the same media group, devoted a column to it in its morning this Wednesday morning. On the evening of Tuesday, July 22, LCI invited Rachida Dati, returned earlier during the day in trial with Carlos Ghosn for corruption in the Renault Nissan case.
Except that once her interview – during which she took it to the magistrates – finished, the Minister of Culture returned to the set, a few minutes later, to correct Guillaume Roquette, director of the editorial staff of Figarowhich had just devoted a column to the judicial file. A lunar sequence as you can see below in the TF1 video.
Graving again all his argument and even touching the journalist with his hand on several occasions, facing the rest of the dumbfounded plateau, the councilor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris finally concluded by promising: ” I stay in management ».
These few minutes on Tuesday evening could only have been a new episode of ” Give the show “, The Minister being known for her punchlines, both with regard to Anne Hidalgo and her other political opponents. They are now affecting the limits of a show policy, sometimes so tasty that even its detractors sometimes have difficulty detaching from it.
“It’s a thug!” I assume my words “
The councilor is thus compared by the communist senator Pierre Ouzoulias, to a ” Tony Montana », Mafia character of Scarface played by Al Pacino, leader ” ORTF ». Referring to the LCI sequence, the socialist Pierre Jouvet stated him this Wednesday at the microphone of Sud Radio against a French Donald Trump: ” She uses Trumpist methods. It’s a thug! I assume my words ».
Joint by The HuffPostthe specialist in political communication Philippe Moreau Chevrolet abounds: ” Faced with judicial affairs, it is a 100 % populist crisis management, first the denial and then the attack. Whether it is on privacy when she attacks Patrick Cohen, or by returning physically to place herself next to the journalist as on LCI. It is the first time that we have seen such an intensity of this populist mode in France ».
For the Minister, it is a way to regain control of the narrative and the journalistic device of the TV set, to create the event, and impose its message ” fighter »With the public. “” It was you who took control of this tray “, Could only note the presenter of LCI, Thomas Misrachi. “” She plays the show and knows it. A way to keep your popularity even if it means losing respectability. The cost is not without risk, because unlike Donald Trump who benefited from an organized populist electorate, it is not in a position of strength », Keys Philippe Moreau Chevrolet, who notably evokes the lack of consensus from which his candidacy suffers from the town hall of Paris or to the deputation in the 2nd district of the capital.
Attacks also against magistrates
The judicial calendar is certainly no stranger to the magnitude taken by the ” Give the show As the noose is tightening. In the Renault-Nissan case, Rachida Dati is suspected of having received 900,000 euros between 2010 and 2012 for consulting services, without having really worked, while she was a lawyer and European deputy.
It is also targeted by judicial information in connection with the detention in Qatar, in 2020, of a Franco-Algerian lobbyist. Libération Accused of not having declared more than 400,000 euros in jewelry at HATVP, and other press inquiry suspect it has received 299,000 euros from GDF Suez when it was MEP, without declaring its origin in the European Parliament. Considerable sums that also struggle the ” mythology thatI “, that of a woman from a popular environment that was done on its own.
Passing through the Luma Foundation in Arles in early July, the Minister had surveyed the imposing exhibition of the artist Wael Shawky, offering a reinterpretation of Greek mythology, in a setting inspired by the Pompeii streets. What remember that the gods like those who worship them can disappear, and that it is not sitting on Olympus anyway.
« She is there because she is useful, with her populist strategy, to Emmanuel Macron who needs his loud voice and a filing holder. We will see her continue in power in this show register but at some point it will no longer be tenable, and we will have to rebalance, because populism isolates and it can have a legal cost », An analysis still Philippe Moreau Chevrolet. In the meantime, “Dati Show must go on”.