On Friday evening, new clashes between police and demonstrators were recorded in Citè Etthadamen, a working-class district of Tunis, after the funeral of a young man who died last Thursday after being injured during a chase with the police last August.
The media reports.
The police had to use tear gas to disperse the protesters, who overturned and burned garbage bins.
Already in the afternoon a group of young people had thrown stones at the security forces after the funeral of the victim in the working-class neighborhood of Al Omrane Supérieur, on the outskirts of Tunis.
Malek Slimi, 24, died last Thursday at the Charles Nicolle hospital in the capital, fifty days after being hospitalized in intensive care.
At a time of strong social tensions, on the eve of demonstrations today in Tunis against President Kais Saied, the government warns against "attempts to sow discord" using the network and what it calls "electronic flies".
The Tunisian Ministry of Communication Technologies states in a statement that some people hidden behind fake profiles are exploiting social networks to create "electronic armies" through accounts and pages based on artificial intelligence algorithms, specifying that this technique called "electronic flies" aims to uplift public opinion and damage national stability.
The note adds that "these groups automatically and intensively publish, through bots, called avatars, information, data,
the ministry invites citizens and users of social networks to check information sources and obtain information from official media.
The ministry "is counting on the conscience of Tunisians to be careful not to contribute to the exaggeration of the facts through their propagation".
the ministry invites citizens and users of social networks to check information sources and obtain information from official media.
The ministry "is counting on the conscience of Tunisians to be careful not to contribute to the exaggeration of the facts through their propagation".