After the attack in the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption basilica in Nice, which caused the death of three people, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin should visit Tunisia next week, according to
Le Parisien
.
On site, Gérald Darmanin should meet his Tunisian counterpart, Taoufik Charfeddine.
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Also according to the daily, this visit was decided at the end of the telephone conversation on Saturday between French President Emmanuel Macron and Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed.
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During this call, the two heads of state referred to
"bilateral relations" as
well as
"the terrorist acts that France has known and still suffers"
, according to a press release from the Tunisian presidency, but also
"the issue of migration clandestine and the solutions to be found together to deal with this phenomenon, which is worsening ”
.
Arrived by Lampedusa
The alleged perpetrator of the Nice attack, Brahim A., is of Tunisian nationality.
He had left his town of Sfax in mid-September, entered Europe illegally via the island of Lampedusa (Italy) on September 20 and arrived in Nice at the end of October.
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“He obviously came here to kill. How else to explain why he armed himself with several knives barely arrived? ",
Declared Gérald Darmanin to La Voix du Nord
,
before adding:
" Of course, it is up to the anti-terrorism prosecutor to define when his murderous project will end. is built.
But he obviously did not come to get papers. ”
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On Saturday, the head of the Tunisian government Hichem Mechichi called on his ministers of the interior and justice to cooperate fully with the French authorities in the investigation and reiterated his
“total and absolute”
condemnation
of this
“brutal and cowardly terrorist
operation
”
.
In parallel with the investigation opened in France, Tunisia has also launched an investigation.