10 Facts About Mohamed Brahmi

Mohamed Brahmi was born on 15 May 1955 in Sidi Bouzid, capital of the Sidi Bouzid Governorate.

Mohamed Brahmi graduated from his alma mater, the Higher Institute of Management at Tunis University with a master's degree in accounting in 1982.

Mohamed Brahmi did consultancy work as an auditor for the Technical Cooperation Agency in Saudi Arabia.

Mohamed Brahmi was an active member of the Arab Progressive Unionist Students until 2005, at which point he left and founded the Nasserist Unionist Movement, an illegal party under the Ben Ali government.

Mohamed Brahmi was known for his socialist and Arab nationalist beliefs, particularly in the tradition of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

On 25 July 2013, Mohamed Brahmi was fatally shot in Tunis outside his Ariana home in front of his wife and children by two men on a motorcycle.

Mohamed Brahmi received 11 bullets and died later that day in a hospital in Ariana district of Tunis.

Mohamed Brahmi's death followed the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid, killed on 6 February 2013.

On 19 September 2013, Tunisia's interior minister told lawmakers the CIA informed authorities Mohamed Brahmi was a target and said there had been a "failure" in the security services' response.

Mohamed Brahmi later claimed that Nidaa Tounes and Ennahda had had a pact to share the positions of president and vice-president of the Assembly, saying "the two parties of the political right, the one liberal and the other religious, joined hands under the table".