Henri Jibrayel (Arabic: هنرى چيبرايل; born on (1951-09-18)18 September 1951 in Marseille) is a French politician with Lebanese and Assyrian roots.
He married in 1938 a Lebanese Maronite young woman from Bkassine (near Jezzine), then joined the Free French Forces after De Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June.
The father was sent in Madagascar till 1950 to repress the anticolonial insurgency, then again in Indochina in one of France's colonial wars.
[1] After being a trade-unionist at the Poste, he became conseiller général for the Socialist Party in a Marseille canton and maire-adjoint in a Marseille secteur in 2001, then he was elected member of the National Assembly of France on 17 June 2007 with 57.41% of votes (25.85% at the first round), so becoming one out of three[2] metropolitan[3] deputies with non-European family roots.
[5] In September 2020, he was sentenced to thirty months of imprisonment, five years of deprivation of civic and civil rights (including ineligibility) and a fine of 30000 €.