Mother of muslim soldier, murdered by Merah, receives USA award.

Latifa Ibn Ziaten, une Française “courageuse” honorée aux Etats-Unis. Courageous French woman honoured by USA.

par mercredi 30 mars 2016 08:08
Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mère e la première victime de Merah à Toulouse en 2012, milite pour le vivre-ensemble

Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mère e la première victime de Merah à Toulouse en 2012, milite pour le vivre-ensemble © MaxPPP

Avec treize autres femmes, la mère d’une victime de Merah à Toulouse en 2012 a été récompensée par le secrétaire d’Etat américain John Kerry, pour son action auprès des jeunes.

Inlassablement, Latifa Ibn Ziaten, sillonne la France à la rencontre des lycéens, des familles, des détenus, des associations pour promouvoir ses convictions sur le vivre-ensemble. Son action lui a valu une récompense de la diplomatie américaine.

Parmi les quatorze femmes récompensées, Latifa Ibn Ziaten est la seule Française distinguée. En avril 2012, elle a fondé une association qui porte nom de son fils, Imad, un jeune militaire abattu le mois précédent par Mohamed Merah à Toulouse et dont il est la première victime. Cette mère de famille, convaincue de la nécessité du dialogue, porte son témoignage dans les établissements scolaires et les prisons.

“Le combat que je mène, c’est pour la mémoire de mon fils, pour toute cette jeunesse perdue”

A Washington, Latifa Ibn Ziaten a délivré ce message : “On doit tendre la main aujourd’hui, on ne peut pas laisser un jeune livré à lui-même”.

“On doit ouvrir les ghettos et les cités dans le monde entier” : Latifa Ibn Ziaten

A Garges-lès-Gonesse, près de Paris, Latifa Ibn Ziaten a ouvert en février dernier un centre pour être à l’écoute des jeunes et de leurs parents afin de “prévenir le plus tôt possible” les signes de radicalisation.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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