The weekend was not easy for Gérald Darmanin, due to the Champions League match between Liverpool and Real Madrid, taking place at the Stade de France on May 28, 2022. The Minister of the Interior must now explain and justify the work of the police during this evening which turned into a fiasco. Sunday must therefore have been busy for the 39-year-old politician. However, he took the time to pay tribute to one of the women in his life on Mother’s Day.
Sunday May 29, the date of Mother’s Day, Gérald Darmanin posted in story from his Instagram account a photo with his mother, Annie Ouakid (see the slideshow). “Happy birthday to all mothers“, he wrote in the caption of his tender shot where we see him in a very casual outfit with a hooded sweatshirt. Gérald Darmanin’s mother has always been very close to her son. She was also present on the last year in Hasnon in the northern region where he grew up, for the inauguration of the impasse Chief Warrant Officer Moussa-Ouakid, an Algerian rifleman engaged in the army and maternal grandfather of the politician. event where she was very moved to see her valiant dad honored by his own child, she appeared very complicit with him, reported Paris Match. Note that he chose to give the middle name to his son Maximilien, born of his marriage to his wife Rose-Marie Devillers, that of his grandfather, Moussa.
According to the book The Black Baron of the president (Robert Laffont editions), written by Laurent Valdiguié and François Vignolle, Annie Ouakid is a mother hen for the minister who survived the cabinet reshuffle: “Even today, when he is a minister, she buys him socks, slips banknotes into his suit pockets so that he does not miss anything and sees to his diet. Discreet about his family, he is not stingy with praise for the one who gave him life, quoting her in an interview with Jordan Bardella on BFMTV to show her courage as a mother who worked as a concierge at the Banque de France. . A relationship that contrasts with the one he had with his father, Gérard Darmanin, bar owner who died in 2019, marked by the terrible tragedy his dad witnessed, the murder of his grandson by his son-in-law in the 1990s.