Tunisian Interior Ministry accuses certain parties of inciting riots… What is the Brotherhood relationship?
The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior confirmed, in a statement issued yesterday, that it provides information to security services that some parties are seeking to incite a number of teenagers, minors, and people with judicial records to riot in some popular neighborhoods.
Security forces are making intensive efforts to arrest them and bring them to justice, the ministry said, noting that the public prosecutor’s office has issued arrest warrants for three men on charges of forming a “criminal band”.
The ministry accused the detainees of damaging private and public property, causing panic among citizens, and possessing Molotov cocktails to attack the judicial police headquarters.
“The three were arrested after the local security forces confiscated a quantity of Molotov cocktails, which the defendants concealed inside the car of one of them,” the ministry said in a statement.
Opposition forces in Tunisia took to the streets yesterday in protest, on the 12th anniversary of the fall of the regime of late President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to express their rejection of President Kais Saied’s project and demand an early presidential election.
Hours before the protests, President Kais Saied toured Habib Bourguiba Avenue on Friday evening, saying that there is “no place for traitors and agents in the country,” adding that “those who accuse the country of police and dictatorship are the ones who want to destroy it.”
Since the beginning of this week, the Ennahdha Brotherhood movement, which is leading these demonstrations, has called on Tunisians to participate heavily in this protest, condemning the measures taken by President Said since July 25, 2021, and the deteriorating economic conditions, as well as demanding his resignation and the organization of early presidential elections.
The National Salvation Front organized a demonstration near the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, which is composed of several parties including the “Ennahdha Movement” of the Muslim Brotherhood. The five democratic and social parties, including the Workers’ Party, Afek Tounes, and the Democratic Current party. The Democratic Party also organized a protest stand, while the Free Destourian Party sought to organize a march towards the Carthage Presidential Palace, which was prevented after verbal altercations between party supporters and security.
Saeed accused his opponents of “standing behind the crises” in the country and attempting to strike state institutions, saying that it is necessary to take measures against those who attack “symbols of the state,” considering this an attack on the internal and external security of the state, stressing that “these conditions cannot continue, and they will not remain without punishment within the framework of the law.”
