Salah ben Youssef
| Salah Ben Youssef صالح بن يوسف |
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Salah ben Youssef
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| Tunisian Minister of Justice | |
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In office 1950–1952 |
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| Monarch | Lamine Bey |
| Prime Minister | Mohamed Chenik |
| Preceded by | Mohamed Abdelaziz Djaït |
| Secretary General of Neo Destour | |
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In office 17 October 1948 – 8 October 1955 |
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| Preceded by | Habib Bourguiba |
| Succeeded by | Bahi Ladgham |
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October 11, 1907 Maghraoua, Djerba, Tunisa |
| Died | August 12, 1961 (aged 53) Frankfurt, West Germany |
| Nationality | Tunisian |
| Political party | Neo Destour |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Salah Ben Youssef (صالح بن يوسف), born on October 11, 1907 in Maghraoua, (Djerba) and was assassinated on 12 August 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, he is a Tunisian Politician and one of the key leaders of the Tunisian national movement.
Born in Maghraoua, a small village near Midoun on Djerba, to a family of wealthy and influential merchants. He trained to be a lawyer, but became involved in politics where he was prized for his personal qualities. This would later lead to his ascension to being Habib Bourguiba's protégé.
He began his political career as the Secretary General of the Neo-Destour Political Party, a post where he played a role of key organizer during Bourguiba's exile. In August 1950, he was appointed as the Tunisian Minister of Justice in the government of Mohamed Chenik. Charged with bringing the Tunisian request for statehood to the United Nations, which was gathered in Paris in March 1952, he barely escaped arrest and deportation. While travelling across the world for more than three years—during which he was received by Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, and even Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China,—the agreements with France concerning internal autonomy for Tunisia were signed.
This fait accompli took place without him and he considered it "a step backwards and a setback". In Ben Youssef's view, the wholesale evacuation of French Troops from the entirety of Tunisian territory was an indisputable prerequisite for genuine national independence.
Whereas Ben Youssef was previously a loyal servant and friend of Bourghiba, when he returned to the country on June 1, 1955, he became Bourghiba's arch-enemy. According to Ben Youssef, his adversary was capable of practicing a "policy of denial and betrayal" of the Tunisian People and concerning the Algerian War. Having returned to Tunisia from Cairo on September 13, he began to organize unrest throughout the country.
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