According to our information, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin will visit Tunisia "at the end of the week".
He will meet his counterpart, the Tunisian Minister of the Interior, a little over a week after the stabbing attack in a church in Nice, perpetrated by a Tunisian national who arrived illegally in France, via the island. Italian from Lampedusa.
This decision was taken after a telephone exchange on Saturday between Emmanuel Macron and the President of Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed.
The latter sent a message of "solidarity" to the families of the victim.
And he made a commitment to France to facilitate the granting of consular permits.
These documents are essential for forced removals, but the countries of origin are very often reluctant to grant them.
Gérald Darmanin will therefore be responsible for setting up a more fluid process.
For the French government, this means being able to remove from French territory several S files of Tunisian origin, staying illegally in France.
On October 13, the tenant of Place Beauvau pledged to speed up escorts to the border: “There are still […] 231 people today that we must expel, who are in an irregular situation and followed for suspicion of radicalization, ”he told the press.