Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950 in

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of the French high-technology firm CS Communication and Systems and also a member of the French Institute of International and Strategic Relations.

Origins and education

Born to a docker father, he moved to what was then metropolitan

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in 1952, and did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School in

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and then at the

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where he obtained a PhD in economic and social sciences.

Career

Sabeg began his career at a subsidiary of

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Bank. In 1990, after an experience in

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, he founded a financial firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, known as CS Communication et Systèmes. His success in the business world, coupled with his

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ian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of the Montaigne Institute, he is close to the UMP. In 2004, he published ''Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper'' (''Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape from it'') with his brother Yacine, a journalist.

Work for diversity and equality

He has been nominated as the "commissaire à l'égalité des chances" in

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on 17 December 2008. Sabeg warned that France risked becoming an

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state unless it brings minorities into the mainstream. "Today we are creating a rift that is leading straight to apartheid", said Sabeg when named commissioner for diversity and equal opportunities. "We cannot allow France to become an apartheid state", he said in an interview to several French media as

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References

External links

"France's disaffected Muslim businessmen,"

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