Yann Annabelle Piat (

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Marie; 12 June 1949 – 25 February 1994) was a French politician. She served in the National Assembly from 1986 to 1994, first with the extreme right party National Front, then with the centrist party Union for French Democracy. She was assassinated in 1994.

Early life

Yann Piat was born on June 12, 1949, in Saigon, French Indochina.National Assembly: Yann Piat
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Career

Piat started her career as an activist for the National Front.Alain Leauthier
Yann Piat, un procès en eau trouble. Sept personnes comparaissent pour l'assassinat de la députée du Var en février 1994.
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Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

'', May 4, 1998 Piat later joined the Union for French Democracy. She served as a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1994. She was opposed to the expansion of the

Toulon–Hyères Airport Toulon–Hyères Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Toulon – Hyères, ) is an airport serving Toulon, a '' commune'' in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France. The airport is located southeast of Hyères, ...

.Alain Leauthier
Le procès de l'affaire Yann Piat. «Elle emmerdait tout le monde». Les ex-collaborateurs de la victime ont évoqué ses ambitions et ses combats politiques.
''Libération'', May 8, 1998

Death and legacy

She was gunned down by Lucien Ferri, while driving home in Hyères on February 25, 1994.yann piat : le film événement sur sa vie
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'', April 16, 2012 In 2008, the ''Rue Yann-Piat'' in Hyères was named in her honour. In 2012, a TV film directed by

Antoine de Caunes Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline ...

and starring

Karin Viard Karin Viard (; born 24 January 1966) is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in ''Tatie Danielle'' in 1990. She has appeared in films such as ''Delicatessen'', ''L'Emploi du temps'', ''Adultère, mode d'emploi'' and ''La ...

as Piat, entitled ''Yann Piat, chronique d'un assassinat'' was released on Canal +.imdb: Yann Piat, chronique d'un assassinat
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References

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