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Tunisia: capital punishment for nine jihadists who killed a soldier

2022-01-15T12:47:38.076Z


Tunisian justice has sentenced to death nine jihadists found guilty of killing in 2016 a soldier at his home in the center-west of the...


Tunisian justice has sentenced to death nine jihadists convicted of killing a soldier in his home in west-central Tunisia in 2016, local media reported on Saturday.

Justice continues to sentence defendants to capital punishment, despite a moratorium observed for more than 30 years in Tunisia.

On Friday, the criminal chamber of the Tunis court of first instance also sentenced fifteen people to prison terms ranging from 32 to 44 years for involvement in the attack on the soldier.

On November 5, 2016, the young army corporal, Said Ghozlani, was found beheaded in his house in the Mount Mghilla region, near Kasserine, a hideout of the local branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi ), called Falange Okba Ibn Nafaa.

The assassination was claimed by the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS).

Since 2012, the security forces have been tracking armed extremist groups, entrenched in mountainous areas of the country, in particular on the Mghilla and Chaambi mountains, in the Kasserine region.

Several jihadists, some of whom are on the run, are being prosecuted by Tunisian courts for their involvement in "terrorist" acts.

In 2020, President Kais Saied questioned the moratorium on the death penalty, saying he was in favor of the application of this type of punishment, after the murder of a 29-year-old woman, found in a ditch on the highway linking Tunis and a residential area.

This position of the president had been strongly criticized by several NGOs.

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