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With 70 years between them, Josette Audin and Ahed Tamimi are the embodiment of timeless struggle — perfect for the opening of the Fete de l’Humanite, writes JOHN HAYLETT
Ahed Tamimi (left) and Josette Audin
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WHEN Patrick le Hyaric, editor in chief of France’s left-wing daily, opened his paper’s Fete de l’Humanite annual festival in Paris at the weekend, he was flanked by two remarkable female fighters for justice.
From either end of the age spectrum, Josette Audin, now 87, and Ahed Tamimi, just 17, exemplify a determination not to surrender to seemingly omnipotent adversaries.
Audin has battled for 61 years to force the French state to acknowledge that her husband Maurice Audin, a member of the Algerian Communist Party, was murdered by the colonial French army.
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