Rachida Dati, who has served as France's minister of culture since January 2024, is under judicial investigation in various cases.

The former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) was charged for "passive corruption and influence peddling" after being accused of promoting the interests of Renault-Nissan within the European Parliament while working in Brussels. The case centers on a consulting contract that arose suspicion among investigators after it was revealed that Dati received €900,000 from the Dutch subsidiary of the Renault-Nissan automobile alliance over three years.

The French politician has also been the subject of another judicial inquiry connected to the 2020 detention in Qatar of a Franco-Algerian lobbyist.

In the video below, we explain what Dati has been accused of to better understand the accusations against the woman dubbed "the unsinkable" in France.