“Put me a nuclear bomb in my body.” Tunisia is investigating the poisoning of its former president, Essebsi

Yesterday evening, the official spokesman for the Court of Appeal in Tunis, Habib Tarkhani, said that the Minister of Justice submitted, on Monday, to the General Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal in Tunis, and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 23 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, with a request to open an investigation into the death of the late President Beji Caid Essebsi. He passed away on July 25, 2019 in the military hospital in the capital.

Tarkhani said in a statement to the Tunis Africa News Agency, that the attorney general at that court authorized the public prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in Tunis to open an investigation into the circumstances and circumstances of that death, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 31 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

For his part, Abdel Sattar Masoudi, the former lawyer for the late President Beji Caid Essebsi, confirmed today, Wednesday, that he had received a short message from "Hafez Caid Essebsi, son of the late president, in which he stated that his father had died and was poisoned."

Al-Masoudi said in a statement to "Shams FM" radio, quoting Hafez Caid Essebsi, that his father literally told him, "Put a nuclear bomb on my body," days before his death, as he put it.

It is noteworthy that the Minister of Justice requested an investigation into the circumstances of the death of the late President Beji Caid Essebsi.

The late President Beji Caid Essebsi (93 years old at the time) died on July 25, 2019 at 10:25 am in the Military Hospital in Tunis, after he had been transferred to that hospital hours earlier.

On July 1 of that year, the late president left the same hospital "after receiving the necessary treatment and recovering from a severe illness," according to what the Presidency of the Republic announced at the time.

On Friday, June 21, 2019, the late president was transferred to the military hospital to perform some tests after suffering a "mild health problem", and then left the hospital "in good health," according to what the presidential spokeswoman said at the time.

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