Rachida Dati attacks an official of the National Assembly, the examination of the suspended audiovisual law – Liberation

The tension reigns on all floors. On the evening of Tuesday, April 1, we also took the cabbage in the cultural affairs committee in the Assembly, where the law of centrist senator Laurent Lafon, a legislative tool used to create to create The « France Media » holding company And aimed at bringing together France Télévisions, Radio France and INA. At the end of the afternoon, the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati wanted to deposit an amendment. As reported Le Figaro, This amendment was deemed inadmissible by the administrator of the Palais Bourbon, having to be split into several parts to be examined. The president of the commission, the socialist Fatiha Keloua Hachi, then suspended the session for ten minutes. « We are then four or five deputies, tells us the rebellious Aurélien Saintoul. Everyone is on their phone. « 

Very quickly, the LFI deputy saw that « It gets away » Between data and the official. Saintoul gets closer, hesitates. Dati gets angry. « It was becoming more and more clear that the official had a soap, continues SaintOUL. Dati launched him: « You can stop with your little smile but I’m like that, I tell the truth. » «  » Stop doing zeal «  » « still launches the minister. « I’m going to hit her »also hear deputies. «  »I approached and told the minister that she did not have to speak like that to the staff of the assembly ”, Traces Aurélien Saintoul. The minister then attacks the elected official. « She replied: » What do you think, that you scare me?  » Then she treated me of “rich kid” – which I am not. I replied that it was an upstart. ” Sacred atmosphere. Saintoul concludes by reporting that, later, the official thanked it « Openly, in front of Dati ». « She was really upset. » On the minister’s side, we obviously do not have the same story. «  »This is not an incident per se and it was not very violent at all. It was the administrator who said to the Minister: « Do not try to distort the procedure » and Dati replied: « Do not speak to me like that » « , tells those around him at Fig.

The session was able to resume before being suspended again for dinner … and finally for the night. Informed of the incident, Fatiha Keloua Hachi decided to interrupt the work, in agreement with the president of the Yaël Braun-Pivet assembly. « The conditions are not met to have a peaceful debate », wrote the president of the commission in a press release published in the evening. Candidate for the PS primary for the next municipal elections in Paris, the socialist Emmanuel Grégoire, absent yesterday from the Commission, denounced the actions of his potential rival in the capital. And it’s not over. According to our information, the chef of rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot will write this morning in Braun-Pivet to tell him the incident. The cabinet of the Minister of Relations with Parliament Patrick Mignola also follows the case closely.