2023-04-19 06:00:19
To say that Sonia Backès, the Secretary of State for Citizenship, under the tutelage of the very media-savvy Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, is of the discreet type is more understatement than slander. In this month of April, however, she inherits in spite of herself a sensitive file: the possible embezzlement of the Marianne fund, created by her predecessor Marlène Schiappa in the fall of 2020 to promote the values of the Republic after the assassination of Samuel patty.
Sonia Backès has launched an investigation by the general administration inspectorate. She would have done well without this controversy. One more. So far, the press was initially surprised by the choice of the leader of the New Caledonian right to keep her post as president of the assembly of the southern province, which this loyalist has led since May 2019. Then, in September 2022, France Info reveals that Sonia Backès has just appointed as special adviser a certain Brieuc Frogier, support of Eric Zemmour, during the presidential election. He will resign immediately.
As if to make people forget this abortive appointment, the 46-year-old Secretary of State confides in a long article on the website of the Figaro, on September 26, where she displayed her desire to fight against sectarian aberrations. Sonia Backès knows the author of the paper: it is the same journalist who had published her interview, in January 2022, in which she said she supported Emmanuel Macron − five years earlier she had not wanted to give voting instructions between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. “This frank and pugnacious woman, writes the journalist in this fall of 2022, large glasses and light hair, fights a personal fight. Sonia Backès confided to him that she had been “saved” of scientology “by relatives”.
A “poignant testimony”
She talks about her parents who divorced when she was a child, her father who stayed in New Caledonia, her mother who came to mainland France and became a devotee of Scientology. Sonia Backès tells of this friend who, as a teenager, opened her eyes to the excesses of the organization. ” As soon as I understood that it was a sect and that I had the means, I wanted to leave. she explains to Figaro. According to her story, she was almost penniless at the age of 13 when she joined her father in New Caledonia. To her mother, she “will speak no more for five years”, writes the journalist. The testimony, strong, is repeated. On March 9, 2023, during the first meeting devoted to the fight against sectarian aberrations, the press will echo this “poignant testimony”. The Parisian devotes a full page to his story.
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