Farhat Hached فرحات حشاد | |
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![]() Farhat Hached | |
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Born | El Abassia, Kerkennah Islands, French Tunisia | February 2, 1914
Died | December 5, 1952 The roadside near Radès, French Tunisia | (aged 38)
Profession | Trades Union Leader Independence Movement leader |
Farhat Hached (Arabic: فرحات حشاد; 2 February 1914 – 5 December 1952[1]) was a Tunisian labor unionist and activist who was assassinated by La Main Rouge, a French terrorist organization operated by French foreign intelligence.[2][3] He was one of the leaders of the pro-independence Tunisian national movement, along with Habib Bourguiba and Salah ben Youssef. His assassination is attributed to La Main Rouge (The Red Hand), an armed organisation that favoured a French presence in Tunisia. More recently, on 18 December 2009, it was confirmed to the Al Jazeera news organisation, by a man called Antoine Méléro, who claimed to be a former Main Rouge member, that the Main Rouge had been a military wing of the French Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service) or SDECE.[2][3]