After his schooling at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris and studies in medicine which he completed with a Ph.D, Richard Prasquier became a cardiologist and later the director of the Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy.

[7] In September 2008, Prasquier led a CRIF delegation which met with Pope Benedict XVI in Paris during the Catholic pontiff's visit to France.

[8] However, a few months later, Prasquier criticized the Vatican for lifting the excommunication of Richard Williamson, who in an interview with Swedish television had question the extent of the Holocaust.

[9] Prasquier is also engaged in talks with Muslim leaders, but in an interview with the French daily Le Figaro in October 2012 warned against complacency vis-à-vis a radical version of Islam that was on the rise.

[...] In the same way, the Nazis compared Jews to bacteria, to rats, to animals.”[11] According to The New York Times Prasquier told French radio France Info : "We must take the measure of this type of ideology.