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The fall of a magistrate exposes the inadequacy of Tunisian justice

2023-03-17T17:37:32.320Z


STORY - Prosecutor in several terrorist cases, including that of the Bardo attack in 2015, Judge Akremi is accused of having failed, to please the Islamist party Ennahdha.


Tunisia

It's a dramatic anniversary.

At any point of view.

On March 18, 2015, at midday, two terrorists entered the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

Armed with assault rifles, grenades and explosive belts, they target tourists getting off the buses, then chase them inside the former beylical palace dating from the 19th century.

Twenty-two people - including four French people - are murdered.

In 2019, after a trial criticized by the lawyers for the French victims, the Tunisian justice sentenced seven defendants to life imprisonment.

While more than twenty were acquitted.

For a month, Bechir Akremi, investigating judge then public prosecutor in this case, has been sleeping in prison.

Huguette was fatally shot.

His daughter, his sister, Françoise and Dominique, were shot.

Nadine, also injured, lost her companion.

These victims decided to file a complaint against Judge Bechir Akremi for "

obstruction and manipulation of the elements...

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Source: lefigaro

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