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Éliane Assassi
French politician (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Éliane Assassi (born 2 October 1958) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France, representing the Seine-Saint-Denis department. She is a member of the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group.[1]
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Biography
Éliane Assassi was born into a Franco-Algerian family. She lived in Gagny in Seine-Saint-Denis during her childhood. Her father, a laborer, died of cancer, likely linked to repeated exposure to asbestos in the workplace, when she was six years old. Her younger brother died in an accident four years later. [2]
She started working at a very young age with her mother, doing housekeeping, and at one point considered becoming a police commissioner. She worked in a tire retreading factory. She joined the French Communist Party at the age of 14.
She is a Communication director by profession.[3]
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