Tunisia: President Kaïs Saïed decides to compensate the victims of the revolution
Eleven years after the beginning of the Tunisian revolution, the relatives of the victims injured or killed during the events do not have the heart to take part in the commemorations.
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In Tunisia, President Kaïs Saïed announced that the families of those injured and dead in the 2010 revolution would be compensated.
It's been years that this case has not progressed.
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With our correspondent in Tunis,
Amira Souilem
As often, the Tunisian president likes to play on symbols.
As his country commemorated the so-called "martyrs' day" on Saturday April 9 - in reference to the nationalists who fell under French bullets during an uprising in 1938 - Kaïs Saïed decided to honor with them other victims, those of the Tunisian revolution which led to the fall of Ben Ali in 2011.
This is a file that has been dragging on for years and that Hatem Nafti, political scientist, follows: “
The biggest problem was to define the list of martyrs and especially of the wounded of the revolution.
It took a long time, the final list was published in 2020. There was a lot of back and forth and that's why it took so long.
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► To read also: Tunisia: publication in the official journal of the list of victims of the revolution
In addition to the families of citizens injured or fallen during the uprising, those of police and military killed in post-revolution terrorist attacks will also be entitled to reparations.
“
Today, in order to stay in power, he
[President Kaïs Saïed]
has to rely on the armed forces and the police.
It was a recurring request from the police and gendarmerie unions to set up a lasting mechanism to take care of the wounded and victims of terrorist operations.
It is also a way of securing the allegiance of the armed forces
,” adds political scientist Hatem Nafti.
This announcement comes as opponents of Kaïs Saïed gathered in Tunis to denounce what they describe as the grabbing of power by a single man.
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