[1][2] Delegate from Montbéliard for the second national congress of SOS Racisme in 1988 at Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), she declared in an interview broadcast in the main evening news programme of the Second public TV channel about the right of foreigners to vote : "My father arrived 30 years ago in France, today he is retired.
[4] She is elected, first French MEP with roots in Algeria, alongside Djida Tazdaït, a Lyon activist chosen by The Greens.
She symbolically took part at the eleventh place on the "L'Europe commence à Sarajevo" list led by her colleague MEP and well-known oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg and supported by several prominent French intellectuals, many of them also symbolically candidates, Bernard-Henri Lévy (21st place), Alain Touraine (13th), André Glucksmann (22nd), Pascal Bruckner (19th), or figured in the support committee, like Marek Halter, Susan Sontag, Paul Auster, Nadine Gordimer and the former mayor of Belgrade Bogdan Bogdanović.
Bernard-Henri Lévy finally announced the withdrawal of the list, which was estimated between 4 and 12% in the polls, but Léon Schwartzenberg decided to maintain it.
In 2007 she was a public servant at the National Agency for the reception of foreigners and migrants and a left-wing opposition municipal councillor in Valentigney.