Tunisia demands Ghannouchi and Ennahdha be listed as terrorists
Tunisia’s Free Destourian Party demanded on Friday that the leader of the Ennahdha Brotherhood Movement, Rached Ghannouchi, and his party be included in the list of individuals and terrorist organizations.
The party added that the funds of the leader of the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood and his party should be frozen and financial flows should be prevented from abroad, calling for the dissolution of parliament and ending the status of Ghannouchi as its president.
The Brotherhood of Tunisia are in disarray following evidence presented by a Tunisian defense committee on Wednesday, proving the involvement of their leader, Ghannouchi, in spying on security.
The evidence and information provided by the defense in the assassination of prominent leftist leader Chokri Belaid on February 6, 2013, also implicated Ennahdha’s leader in the crime, as well as in contact with the outside world.
Since coming to power in 2011, terrorism and the killing of soldiers, security personnel, and civilians have increased, with the formation of networks to send and recruit young Tunisians abroad after they were recruited in prisons and mosques.
On Wednesday, these facts were revealed by the evidence during a press conference organized by the defense team for Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, which confirmed that it had documents revealing the involvement of the president of the Ennahdha Brotherhood Movement, Ghannouchi, in communication with foreign parties.
The Committee pointed out that there are also documents proving Ghannouchi’s involvement in attacking the security of the Tunisian state, accusing the Muslim Brotherhood leader of money laundering with his son Mouad, in addition to the existence of a secret financial body related to the head of the Ennahdha Movement.
Observers believe that the Tunisia’s Brotherhood revealed their crimes and showed their betrayal against the homeland, and lacked anything other than judicial accountability and return to prisons.
On February 6, 2013, Tunisia was shaken by the assassination of the leftist leader of the Democratic Patriots’ Unified Party, Chokri Belaid, who is known for his hostility to the Brotherhood and for repeatedly calling them criminals, the first in Tunisia’s modern history.
On 22 January, the Tunisian judicial authorities decided to open an investigation into the secret service of Ennahdha, which is accused of involvement in the 2013 assassination of Belaid and Brahmi, espionage and infiltrating Tunisian state institutions.
