Farhat Hached

Farhat Hached (Arabic: فرحات حشاد; 2 February 1914 – 5 December 1952) was a Tunisian labor unionist and activist who was assassinated by La 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. 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 La Main Rouge member, that La 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.