"In Tunisia, the anniversary of the revolution is a heading increasingly difficult to pass"

Hello Vincent, this Wednesday you come back to this journalist who set himself on fire in Tunisia to denounce misery.

Abdel Razzak Zorgui was an image reporter, the JRI write with their camera. You still have to have one, a TV channel broadcasts your images, a producer finances filming and editing, which is a lot of conditions. You are never a journalist all by yourself. Or, we are unemployed.

Abdel Razzak Zorgui, 32, two children, two ex-wives, was alone, and no doubt he died. He lived in Kasserine, 270 kilometers southwest of Tunis, which does not interest much the media of the capital, because it does not happen much, but this is precisely the problem in Tunisia There is not much going on in everything that happens. 8 years after the fall of the dictatorship, poverty, unemployment, lack of development remain the fate of the regions of the interior and idle men feel assigned to residence.

It is not with ink but with gasoline that Abdel Razzak Zorgui has signed his last paper. The shock of the image and the weight of the testimony. Before scratching the match, he wrote three sentences, like a legend. He says he is starting a revolution for the hungry and marginalized Kasserine sons. We think of Mohamed Bouazizi, this four-season merchant persecuted by the police, whose suicide revolted the Tunisians and triggered the revolution against Ben Ali.

For 8 years, regularly Tunisians immolate themselves to denounce the expensive life.

The inhabitants of Kasserine were the first to rebel in 2010. On Monday, they paid tribute to the deceased by throwing stones at the riot police and burning some tires. Yesterday, after the burial, they started again. The rest of the country is watching. Tunisia is the only Arab spring that has not come to a standstill, but the economic model is running out of steam and 8 successive governments have sailed. On the social level, it's a pressure cooker.

A year ago, a revolt had spread like wildfire with a slogan, "what are we waiting for?". It is a question of end of year, when one tries a balance sheet. In Tunisia, the anniversary of the revolution is a course increasingly difficult to pass.