Rachida Dati breaks her silence on her "forced marriage" of 1992

The current figure of the Parisian opposition detailed the painful circumstances of this ceremony celebrated on November 14, 1992. Forced by what she describes as a "small matter of honor" towards her father, she agreed to marry a man she barely knew. She describes a glacial atmosphere, marked by tears and the visible discomfort of the civil registrar. "Under pressure, I say ’Yes’," she recounted, referring to a consent extorted by the weight of traditions and the fear of social judgment.

The situation quickly deteriorated after the wedding, leading to a significant weight loss in the former minister, then torn between her distress and the respect of paternal authority. While her father feared the "what will people say" and firmly opposed the separation, it was ultimately her mother who intervened on the following December 23 to put an end to the ordeal, refusing to sacrifice her daughter. "I didn’t want to separate, I wanted to have the approval of my parents," Rachida Dati specified to explain her inability to act alone at the time.

It took three years of complex procedures, initiated by a complaint with a prosecutor, to obtain the official annulment of this marriage. Long kept secret, this episode was only publicly revealed under the constraint of subsequent journalistic investigations. Today, Rachida Dati claims to have transformed this intimate ordeal into a "stone to lead battles", placing the fight against forced marriages at the heart of her political commitment.

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