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Latifa Ibn Ziaten

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Nationality
  
French-Moroccan

Known for
  
violence prevention

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Born
  
1 January 1960 (age 57) (
1960-01-01
)
Tétouan

Notable work
  
Imad ibn Ziaten youth association for peace

Similar
  
Mohammed Merah, Mohamed Sifaoui, Fabien Clain, Amedy Coulibaly, Olivier Corel

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Latifa Ibn Ziaten (Arabic: لطيفة بن زياتين born 1 January 1960 in Tétouan, Morocco), is a French-Morrocan activist. She is the mother of Imad ibn Ziaten, born in 1981, the first service member in Toulouse killed by Mohammed Merah on 11 March 2012.

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Life

She is a practicing Muslim, and arrived in France in 1977 at the age of 17, to join her husband Ahmed who worked for the SNCF. She is the mother of five children, four boys and one girl. One son was Imad Ibn Ziaten, sergeant of the 1st paratroop Regiment who was traveling from Francazal near Toulouse, when Mohamed Merah murdered him on March 11, 2012.

She then worked as a supervisor and receptionist at the Museum of Fine Arts of Rouen.

After the death of her son, she went to Izards, a city in the northeast of Toulouse where the murderer lived.

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Following this meeting, she decided to create the Imad ibn Ziaten youth association for peace and in April 2012, in order to help young people in deprived areas, and to promote secularism and interreligious dialogue. The association is sponsored by actor Jamel Debbouze, and an office is at the town hall of the 4th district of Paris by Christophe Girard.

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In February 2014, attended by the Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) Midi-Pyrénées honored its association by giving her an award to honor her work. She also received support from the Ministry of Education which awards an annual grant.

In January 2015, she was invited to the Synagogue de la Victoire in Paris, attended by President of the Republic, François Hollande, to light a candle in honor of the seventeen victims of the attack against Charlie Hebdo and the taking hostages Hyper store near Vincennes.

On November 19, 2015, with President Hollande, Latifa Ibn Ziaten received the Prize for Prevention Conflict by the Fondation Chirac, for her continued promotion of inter-religious dialogue and a culture of peace.

In 2016, she received an International Women of Courage Award.

Works

  • Mort pour la France : Mohamed Merah a tué mon fils, Paris, Flammarion, 2013, 268 ISBN 978-2-08-129612-1
  • Awards

  • Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (from 14 July 2015)
  • Lauréate 2015 du Prix pour la prévention des conflits de la fondation Chirac
  • International Women of Courage Award.
  • References

    Latifa Ibn Ziaten Wikipedia