In memory of Farhat Hached

Born February 2, 1914

El Abassia, Kerkennah Islands, Tunisa

Died December 5, 1952 (aged 38)

The roadside near Radès, Tunisia

Nationality Tunisian

Profession Trades Union Leader

Independence Movement leader

Farhat Hached February 1914 - 5 December 1952) was a Tunisian trades unio

He was one of the leaders of the pro-independence Tunisian national movement, along with Habib Bourguiba and Salah ben Youssef. He was assassinated by the French intelligence services. For a long time his assassination was 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 External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service ("Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage" / SDECE).[2]