Since June 21, he is no longer president of the LREM group in the National Assembly, nor a deputy, after his defeat against Leo Walter de la Nupes, in the Alpes de Haute-Provence, in the legislative elections. Former Interior Minister Christophe Castaner is back in civilian life. Will he reconnect with his old passion for the game?
That for a street cred’!
A priori, his wife Hélène, keeps watch. It was she who interrupted what could have been a long poker career, which Christophe Castaner started at 18. This is what the politician confided about his past, in the south of France… Until he was 20, he assured: “I earned enough to feel rich and go on vacation without any problem. Poker taught me to be cool in times of crisis. As a result, there are few things that scare me” as reported the world in 2018.
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A path he took completely by accident, since he says: “One day, in Manosque, I accompany the butcher’s son to a game of poker at the PMU bar. He loses fifty francs. I play too. I see that I am not bad. So I start to win. Manosque was the rear base of the Marseille midfielder. This is where the thugs came to go green. There were bad boys around the table. Some got hit. They called me the student.”
Patrick Bruel of the Assembly
It is only after this episode, and the meeting with the woman of his life that Christophe Castaner will take his life in hand. Bac in hand, he enrolled in law school and first joined the ranks of the Socialist Party. He entered the National Assembly for the first time in 2012. The story does not tell if he one day crossed the path of Patrick Bruel, actor and singer by profession, who feeds the same passion for the famous card game.…
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