Farhat Hached, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Farhat Hached

Tunisian syndicalist

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1914

Place of Birth: El Abassia, Sfax Governorate, Tunisia

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1952

Profession: civil servant, trade unionist

Nationality: Tunisia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Farhat Hached (Arabic: ????? ?????; 2 February 1914 – 5 December 1952) was a Tunisian labor unionist and independence activist assassinated by the Main Rouge, a French terrorist organization operated by French foreign intelligence.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.