Latifa Ibn Ziaten

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• Franco-Moroccan Activist Opens Youth Education Center in Morocco to Combat School Dropout
  11 March 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Franco-Moroccan activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mother of Imad, the first soldier assassinated in Toulouse by the terrorist Mohammed Merah on March 11, 2012, is inaugurating an IMAD educational center for Youth and Peace in Fnideq, in order to continue her fight for peace and to help young people.
  "Since Covid, many children have left school in Morocco. So we will first try to recover these young people aged 10, 11, 12, and then there will be people of all ages. We will work with the (…)

• Son of Anti-Extremism Activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten Brutally Attacked in France
  12 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  One of the sons of Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mother of Imad Ibn Ziaten, a soldier coldly murdered by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse in March 2012, was assaulted. Admitted to the emergency room of the Rouen University Hospital in the evening, the victim says he was attacked while returning home with a friend, who was also hospitalized.
  The first accounts of the victim describe an attack by three individuals with unkempt beards.
  For Méhana Mouhou, the lawyer for the Ibn Ziaten family, the "violent (…)

• Anti-Terrorism Activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten Faces New Death Threats and Hate Messages
  10 June 2019, by Kamal

  The president of the Imad Ibn Ziaten Association for Youth and Peace, Latifa Ibn Ziaten, was the target this morning of hateful tags and death threats. Several messages were tagged: "long live Mera"; "Jew soon dead"; or "we’ll get you".
  Since 2018, Latifa Ibn Ziaten has not stopped receiving threatening messages, and her lawyer, Samia Maktouf, declared "My client does not feel safe, she is shocked and upset, it is the return of hatred in France".
  The lawyer also stated that she intends (…)

• Son of Anti-Extremism Activist Arrested for Alleged Theft of Police Equipment
  27 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Judicial Police of Rouen has once again arrested Naoufal Ibn Ziaten, the son of Moroccan activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten. He is accused of stealing several items belonging to the police.
  The defendant, the brother of Imad, the first soldier assassinated in 2012 by the Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah, has received, for the 2nd time in ten days, a visit from the Judicial Police. Since Tuesday, July 23, 2019, he has been arrested for the alleged theft of various police items: a bulletproof (…)

• Mother of Terrorism Victim Speaks Out on Veil Controversy in France
  27 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  Latifa Ibn Ziaten is the mother of Imad Ibn Ziaten, the first soldier assassinated in Toulouse by the terrorist Mohammed Merah on March 11, 2012. Drawing on her own story, she must have felt all the bitterness of Fatima E. who was humiliated in the presence of her son.
  "When I saw the video for the first time, I was shocked, like everyone else," she confides to the newspaper Le Monde. "I immediately thought of this child who had probably come, for the first time in his life, to discover a (…)

• Toulouse Terror Victim’s Mother Honored for Youth Outreach Work
  20 November 2019, by Ginette

  The Grand Rabbi Joseph Cohen Foundation Prize was awarded this Sunday, November 17, to Latifa Ibn Ziaten. She is the mother of Imad Ibn Ziaten, the first victim of Mohammed Merah in Toulouse.
  According to France 3 Occitanie, after the death of her son Imad Ibn Ziaten on March 11, 2012, Latifa Ibn Ziaten was able to find the necessary psychological strength to found the Imad Association for Youth and Peace. This association aims to help young people in difficulty in the neighborhoods.
  It (…)

• Macron Honors Franco-Moroccan Activist with National Order of Merit Promotion
  12 January 2021, by Sylvanus

  The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, has promoted the Franco-Moroccan activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten to the rank of officer in the National Order of Merit for her commitment to the service of France.
  "I am very pleased to inform you that I have decided to promote you to the rank of officer in the National Order of Merit. [...] This prestigious distinction, which I have personally decided to award you, rewards your commitment to the service of France," the French president (…)

• Moroccan Activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten Honored with UAE’s Zayed Human Fraternity Award
  4 February 2021, by Bladi.net

  In a press release, the Higher Committee for Human Fraternity of the United Arab Emirates announced that the Moroccan activist has been rewarded for her great achievements and influential initiatives taken, which are in line with the values and principles stipulated in the Document on Human Fraternity, the main criterion for awarding the Prize.
  For the committee, Ms. Ibn Zyaten is one of the "most active and influential figures in the field of combating extremism. She "has dedicated her (…)

• Franco-Moroccan Mother of Terror Victim Honored for Youth Outreach Efforts
  7 February 2021, by Sylvanus

  The newspaper Times of Israel devoted an article to the commitment of the Franco-Moroccan Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mother of Imad, the first soldier assassinated in Toulouse by Mohammed Merah on March 11, 2012.
  She had created the association "Imad for Youth and Peace" after the death of her son, which organizes interventions in schools, prisons or shelters, but also educational projects such as the restoration of a museum in Morocco by "about twenty young people in difficulty, from a (…)

• Franco-Moroccan Activist Honored Among 109 ’Mariannes’ for International Women’s Day
  5 March 2021, by Jérôme

  As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, the Deputy Minister to the Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, is initiating an exhibition to "pay tribute to (women) who, in 2021, are the new diverse faces of our Republic, of citizenship and of commitment". Franco-Moroccan Latifa Ibn Ziaten is one of the 109 Mariannes of the Republic.
  This distinction planned for March 8 wants to pay tribute to the particular journey of this mother who (…)