M6 broadcasts this Tuesday, November 12, 2024, from 9:10 p.m., the first two episodes (out of four) of the mini-series The Spies of Terrorwhich focuses on the hunt for the terrorists of November 13, 2015. Rachida Brakni plays Malika Choukri, a DGSE analyst. The opportunity to take an interest in the actress and the couple she forms with Eric Cantona, whom she met in 2003 on the set of the film The overeater.
They married in 2007 before welcoming their first child two years later, a boy named Emir. Selma will then complete the family in 2013. All together, they left to settle in Portugal, near Lisbon. We are talking here about the 7th most peaceful country in the world, if we refer to theGlobal Peace Index 2024. Low crime rate, rStable international relations, absence of internal conflicts, defense and militarization… We feel safe there.
Rachida Brakni and Eric Cantona in Portugal, an “idyllic living environment”
But if they made this decision, it is above all “due to debates on deprivation of nationality“explained Rachida Brakni for Liberation, on the occasion of the release of his book, Kaddourpublished by Stock last March. She refused to choose between France and Algeria. Cthis injunction “absurd” which was made to her thus pushed her and her famous husband to leave. And “luxury exile”, she admitted, while admitting to wanting to return to France.
“My son and my daughter are at French high school, we live by the sea, only two hours from Paris. There is the sun, good food, social diversity… I love France, I will come back there, it's my country, but Lisbon offers us an idyllic living environment.” Eric Cantona told Version Femina in 2017.
As for those who criticized him for packing his bags in Portugal to avoid taxes, he responded to them in an interview given to Yahoo ! Sports, for the promotion of his book My notebook (Flammarion editions): “People do what they want. Let them know the relationship I have with money, and the relationship my money has with the people, and then we will talk. Because I continue to pay, with my companies, a lot of taxes in France, and much more than 99% of people in France. I have the right to say what I want, where I want and when I want. And if they're not happy, it's the same!“
A few years ago, he also revealed on his Instagram account some photos of their house, where the family is having a blast.
