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Tunisia plagued by the demon of terrorism

2021-04-28T11:52:24.680Z


ANALYSIS - The country, a democracy under construction since the “jasmine revolution” of January 2011, is today the first exporting country of young parties for jihad: in Libya, Syria and the Sahel… A reality hard to accept by the company on site.


"As always, in Tunisia, we are terrified at the news of a terrorist attack in Europe: we pray to God that the alleged terrorist is not Tunisian and we hide our face until the results of police investigation.

And, almost systematically, we are entitled to the same verdict: the culprit is a Tunisian terrorist… ”

Thus begins, Saturday, the article by Moncef Dhambri, on the online news site Kapitalis.

For 72 hours and the assassination of the police officer from the Rambouillet police station, comments have been rife in the Tunisian media.

Between anger and despair, a question comes back over there, throbbing, painful, terrifying: why us?

To read also:

Attack of Rambouillet: the drift of a clandestine turned terrorist

Jamel Gorchene, the 36-year-old assassin, was indeed from Msaken, a commune in the Sousse region.

Like Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old Islamist who mowed 86 people on July 14, 2016, driving his truck on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

He too was said to be depressed.

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Source: lefigaro

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