Henri Jibrayel, is a French politician with Lebanese and Assyrian roots. His father was an Assyrian survivor of the Assyrian genocide who had taken refuge with his parents in a Beirut slum. He married in 1938 a Maronite young woman from Bkassine, then joined the Free French Forces after De Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June. After the war, the family got the French naturalisation and was hosted by its new fatherland in a slum near Marseille. The father was sent in Madagascar till 1950 to repress the anticolonial insurgency, then again in Indochina in one of France's colonial wars. In 1963, the family, including 8 children, tries a come back in Lebanon, and settle in Ain al-Remmane, but this attempt leads to a fiasco and two years later the family turns back to Marseilles, Henri leaves school at 15, becomes a crane driver, and afterwards enters the French Poste. 

September 18th, 1951 in Marseille (Age 73)