Away from the hubbub of the Mornag municipal market, the odds and ends stall is still standing.
A gray kitten has taken up residence there.
A cluster of plastic bags hangs from a thread.
Two peaches on the ground are rotting in the sun.
The crates are empty.
Here, right next to a Stop traffic sign, trading came to an abrupt halt on Saturday, September 24.
Around 10 a.m. in this popular locality 16 km south-east of Tunis, Tunisia, fruit merchant Mohamed Amine Dridi, a 25-year-old bachelor, killed himself.
He hanged himself in his studio in the City of Gardens, only 150 m from his livelihood which had been feeding him for two weeks.
“A few minutes before his suicide, we heard him in the driveway shouting:
They will see, they will see!
rewinds Rafie, driving instructor.
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