Sarah Knafo: who is the woman in the shadow of Eric Zemmour, pictured in Paris Match? – Linternaute.com

SARAH KNAFO. Not yet a candidate, Eric Zemmour may be in the coming days with a campaign team that is already working on his side including a certain Sarah Knafo, who is the subject of the Paris Match this week. The politician posted a tweet about it this Wednesday evening.

Each presidential pre-campaign has its history as a couple, its affair of the heart or its private scandal, it depends. And the 2022 campaign will obviously be no exception. This Thursday, September 23, Paris Match makes its front page on Sarah Knafo, a 28-year-old enarque presented as a “very close advisor toEric Zemmour“. If the title does not say more about the nature of their relationship, the photo that the weekly has decided to display on its cover leaves little room for doubt: we see Eric Zemmour in the middle of a swim in the south of France, during his holidays in La Seyne-sur-Mer, holding a young woman behind her arm, as if in an embrace.

While the former journalist – still not officially a presidential candidate – has been drawing the light on him for several weeks, Sarah Knafo, presented by Match as “the young enarque who runs his campaign”, has already been forced to stand lay off her post as magistrate at the Court of Auditors “for personal convenience”. According to Le Parisien, activating alongside Eric Zemmour was hardly compatible with such a function from the point of view of the internal code of ethics … In the evening of this Wednesday, Eric Zemmour wrote a tweet following the front page of Paris Match. “You have to believe that I’m starting to worry enough for Paris-Match, the power poodle, to try to harm me. I won’t let myself be intimidated,” we can read.

On the front page of Paris Match this week, Sarah Knafo and Eric Zemmour appear in a paparazzi photo worthy of those usually stolen from movie stars. The magazine even dared to take photos of the polemicist in a swimsuit and the report continues on the inside pages with other pictures from his communication advisor. We see among other things the former columnist of CNews in a bathrobe with the young woman. Paris Match presents her in turn as “the one who whispers in the ear of Eric Zemmour”, her “radiant campaign director” or “the understudy, smiling and collegial, of the sixty-year-old unaccustomed to collective functioning”.

The photos broadcast in Paris Match therefore clearly suggest that Eric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo would be a couple. According to people magazine information here is, Eric Zemmour, 63, and his 28-year-old advisor, are indeed living an “idyll”. “In the political-journalistic world, the romance between Zemmour and Sarah Knafo surprises no one. It is even a classic to mix work and private life among politicians, so illegitimate relations go unnoticed”, would have confirmed a source close to the couple in the newspaper which will also devote its front page to the “couple” Thursday, September 23.

Until the clichés of Paris Match and Here, Sarah Knafo and Eric Zemmour have never publicly mentioned any relationship. If a setting in scene is possible, their reaction to these “scoops” will be very observed. Eric Zemmour married in the 1980s with Mylène Chichportich, lawyer and mother of her three children. it has always made sure to stay away from the career but also from the words of the polemicist.

Judge at the Court of Auditors, Sarah Knafo is 28 years old and graduated from ENA. “She is a brilliant enarque, she left the Molière promotion in 2019, and in the boot, that is to say in the first positions attributed to the exit of the ENA.” The “boot” always offers the same dilemma to the lucky ones: will they choose the Council of State, the General Inspectorate of Finance, the Quai d’Orsay or the Court of Auditors to start their careers as senior officials? Sarah Knafo opted for the fourth option and was inducted there as magistrate in January 2020 “, explains Louis Hausalter, journalist at Marianne.

Featured in a report by BFM TV last June, Sarah Knafo was presented as “firmly convinced of the national destiny” of Eric Zemmour. She believes that the polemicist’s victory in this 2022 presidential election is a real possibility. “She believes in it a lot, she talks about it a lot with him obviously,” said Louis Hausalter at the time. A few years ago, while the polemicist was a columnist for the show “We are not lying”, Sarah Knafo organized meetings at her home, bringing together right-wing personalities while trying to secure the services of young people to her. talents, as explained The Express. In a book by Alexandre Devecchio (journalist at Le Figaro), the young woman explained her affinity with Eric Zemmour. “As a French Israelite, I recognize myself in his journey of assimilation and in his detachment from Jewish identity. I am of Jewish faith, but I feel of Christian culture. At home, Charles Péguy is also important than the Torah. ” Now Eric Zemmour’s right-hand man, the magistrate accompanies the possible candidate in all his travels and could be the asset of this campaign for the polemicist.