Karim Zéribi

Karim Zéribi (born September 25, 1966 in Avignon ) is a former French football player , trade unionist and politician. He is a member of the city council of Marseille and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2012 .

Life

Zéribi was born on September 25, 1966 to Algerian parents in Avignon. He spent his first career as a professional footballer at FC Rouen . A serious knee injury forced him to retire.

At the beginning of the 1990s, like his father and grandfather, he became an employee of the national railways SNCF in Marseille. From 1994 to 1996 he was also a trade union official in the Confédération générale du travail (CGT).

In 2008 he was elected as a representative of Divers gauche in the city council of Marseille and from 2009 he was also a delegate of the community association Communauté urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole . He took 2009 for the Socialist Party in the 2009 European elections in part, for which he was not elected but became the first substitute due to its result. In 2010 Zéribi moved to the Greens ( Europe Écologie-Les Verts ). On June 11, 2012, he succeeded Vincent Peillon , who entered the government after the French presidential elections, as a member of the European Parliament.

MEP

Zéribi is in the Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance

As a member, he is in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defense Policy , in the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, in the Delegation for relations with the United States and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

He is a deputy in the Committee on Transport and Tourism .

Karim Zéribi is married and has four children.

Web links

• Entry on Karim Zéribi in the Members' database of the European Parliament

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1. ^ Website of the European Parliament