The incidents that took place on Friday in Tunisiabetween police officers and people protesting in a Tunis neighborhood over a young man who had been fatally injured during a chase last August.
A group of youths attacked security forces men with stones after the funeral of 24-year-old Malek Slimy yesterday afternoon. In the evening the episodes became more extensive, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of protestersaccording to the French Agency (AFP) citing testimonies from residents.
Protesters set up makeshift barricades, setting trash cans on fire, an AFP correspondent reported.
24-year-old Malek Slimi breathed his last on Thursday, about 50 days after being admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). “He had injured his neck when he fell into a ditch during a police chase”, his relative told a radio station. His family requested an investigation to clarify the case.
The Tunisian police have been criticized many times for excessive use of force.
Fourteen young people have been killed in recent years in clashes with police, according to the Tunisian Union for Human Rights, which denounces police “impunity”.
Moreover, opposition accuses Tunisian security services of resorting to methods reminiscent of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s regimeafter President Qais Sayed took full power in July 2021. Sayed’s move shook democracy in the country that started the Arab Spring in 2011.
Source: News Beast
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