Yann Piat

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Yann Piat
Member of the National Assembly for Var's 3rd constituency
In office 1986–1993
Personal details
Born	(1949-06-12)12 June 1949 Saigon, French Indochina
Died	25 February 1994(1994-02-25) (aged 44) Hyères, France
Cause of death	Assassination
Nationality	French
Political party	National Front
Spouse(s)	Philippe Piat

Yann Piat (12 June 1949 – 25 February 1994) was a French politician. She served in the National Assembly from 1986 to 1994, first with the extreme right party National Front, then with the centrist party Union for French Democracy. She was assassinated in 1994.

Early life[]

Yann Piat was born on June 12, 1949 in Saigon, French Indochina.^[1]

Career[]

Piat started her career as an activist for the National Front.^[2]

Piat later joined the Union for French Democracy.^[1] She served as a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1994.^[1] She was opposed to the expansion of the Toulon–Hyères Airport.^[3]

Death and legacy[]

She was gunned down by Lucien Ferri,^[4] while driving home in Hyères on February 25, 1994.^[5][6]

In 2008, the Rue Yann-Piat in Hyères was named in her honour.^[7]

In 2012, a TV film directed by Antoine de Caunes and starring Karin Viard as Piat, entitled Yann Piat, chronique d'un assassinat was released on Canal +.^[8][9]

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