President Kaïs Saïed on Friday (May 12th) denied any allegation of state anti-Semitism in Tunisia, after a deadly shooting by a gendarme outside a synagogue. The attack took place Tuesday night as hundreds of worshippers completed the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue.
Three gendarmes and two worshippers were killed by the assailant's gunfire before he was shot dead by police. Tunisian authorities denounced a "criminal" attack but refrained from calling it "terrorist" or giving it an anti-Semitic dimension.