Ghannouchi under investigation again, details
Nearly six months after the incident, Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Ennahdha, the political arm of Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood, is under investigation for remarks offensive to Tunisian security forces.
According to the Tunisian radio Mosaïque FM, Ghannouchi will be investigated before the Central Division of the National Guard in Al-Awinah, on Wednesday, against the background of describing the Tunisian security forces as “Taghut” during the eulogy of Farhat Al-Abbar, the leader of the Ennahdha movement, last February.
The Ennahdha Movement usually argues that most of the cases in which the evidence and documents prove the involvement of its leaders are purely “political”, as part of a series of the movement’s desperate attempts to gain the sympathy of the Tunisian people and return to the Tunisian political scene through the “Mazlumiyeh” gate. A statement of the movement, quoted by Mosaïque FM, said that what was attributed to Ghannouchi in describing the Tunisian security as “Taghut” is “a new episode of targeting political symbols.”
Describing Tunisia’s security as “Taghut” is actually a new episode in Ghannouchi’s record, which also faces charges of financing terrorism through the Namaa Tounes, a charity arm of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
While Ennahdha and its leaders are trying to promote the issue as political, and deny any relationship between Ghannouchi and the Association for the Development of Tunisia, lawyer Ali Ben Aoun said that the photos, posts and meetings confirm that Ghannouchi is linked to the association involved in money laundering and smuggling, and financing associations and organizations linked to terrorism inside and outside Tunisia. In addition, it was proven that Ennahdha was involved in the secret service file, and it was proven that he received foreign funds to finance his election campaign under the “Lobbying Contracts”.
In early February, the defense team of the two martyrs, Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, revealed in a press conference with “documents” the involvement of Ennahdha and its leader Rached Ghannouchi in the political assassinations of a number of political activists, foremost among them Belaid, in the “decency” of the Brotherhood. It also revealed the involvement of Ghannouchi and his son, as well as others, in the crimes of money laundering, the carrying out of suspicious financial movements with parties linked to the State of Qatar to finance the travel of young Tunisians to Syria to join ISIS camps, in addition to the attacks on the internal security of the state, and the spying of Tunisians.
Ridha Al-Radawi, a member of the defense committee of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, said at the same press conference: An association established in 2011 under the name “Namaa Tounes” aimed at encouraging foreign investments, was involved in the crimes of travel (sending young Tunisians to fight in conflict and war zones), and preliminary penal research was opened, which was soon pursued by the Brotherhood’s “Ennahdha” movement through its arm in the judiciary, and the investigation was stopped.
