Who was the MP Jo Cox killed during the campaign against the Brexit – L’Express

“She had put her life at the service of human rights and justice,” was sorry Thursday the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn. Jo Cox, British Labour MP for 41 years, died of his injuries Thursday. She was attacked Gunshot and stab wounds to a library in Birstall, in northern England.

While the campaign for the referendum on membership of the United Kingdom to the European Union was in full swing, his 52 year old assailant reportedly shouted “Britain First” ( “Priority in the UK” ), according to British media.

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The death of Jo Cox plunges UK into a deep sadness. Portrait of a politician whose future promises to be bright.

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Born in Batley (West Yorkshire), Joy Cox was elected Labour MP for that riding during the last legislative elections in May 2015. Considered one of the rising stars of the party, she was very active in the Network of Labour women, says the Guardian .

Before of entering politics, she was part of the NGO Oxfam. within this association, it actively campaigned against slavery. she was also, according to the BBC, Councillor Sarah Brown, the wife of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and Glenys Kinnock, member of the house of Lords and wife of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

Jo Cox was the mother of two children aged 3 and 5 years. She was one of 36 Labour MPs who supported the candidacy of Jeremy Corbyn for the party presidency in 2015, according to the local newspaper, the Yorkshire Evening Post , although it was then voted the centrist candidate Liz Kendall.

Pro-European and leader of Syria Group of Friends

Jo Cox, convinced pro-European, had published an article on June 10, Yorkshire Evening Post , to explain his belief that Brexit would not solve the issue of immigration. The Australian model touted by pro-Brexit would not work, it does ensure, as Australia has twice migrants, compared to the population than the United Kingdom. She participated with her husband, Brendan Cox, and his two daughters, the pro-European fleet on the Thames on Wednesday.

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After his election, she became co-chair of the Parliamentary Group of Friends of Syria. She had pleaded in forums published in the Yorkshire Post and the weekly the Observer in the fall of 2015 for the creation of an air protection zone to stop shelling of civilians by the regime of Bashar Assad. She remembered that she had been hostile to the intervention in Iraq in 2003, but that the situation in Syria had nothing to do with that of the neighboring country. she also campaigned for his country welcomes more Syrian refugees.

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the attack against MP caused great excitement in the small town of Birstall, throughout the UK and Europe. François Hollande expressed his “deep emotion”.

A girl lays flowers near the place of Jo Cox assault June 16, 2016.

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Boris Johnson, former Mayor of London and leader of the pro-Brexit camp, announced that he kept campaigning for the day. Many leaders shared their sadness and support on Twitter.

Prime Minister David Cameron:

The Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn:

The husband Jo Cox, Brendan Cox, posted on his Twitter account a photo of his wife, smiling, in front of a blue sky.

“She would have liked two things are priority now: his precious children are raised in love and we are all united against hatred who killed her,” he said in a text cited by the Guardian .