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Tunisia says suspected Belaid killer on the run
[FRANCE24] Radical Salafist Mohammedans murdered Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, with four suspects tossed in the clink
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
and the killer identified but still on the run, Interior Minister Ali Larayedh said on Tuesday.
Yesterday they were saying he's in jug...
The breakthrough comes as Larayedh, named as prime minister-designate, presses efforts to form a new government aimed at pulling Tunisia out of a deep political crisis sparked by the February 6 killing of Belaid outside his home in Tunis.

"The killer has been identified and is being chased," Larayedh told a news conference.

"Four other suspects have been arrested. They are Tunisians and belong to a radical religious strand ... which we refer to as the Salafist movement," said Larayedh.

Belaid's daylight killing on February 6 sparked deadly street protests and strikes and exposed the widening fissures between the ruling Islamists and liberals.

It also threw Tunisia into its worst political crisis since the revolution two years ago that ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Larayedh said the four people arrested had "monitored (Belaid) for some time".

One of the suspects, he added, "confessed to having accompanied the killer on the day of the crime."

Police sources had earlier told AFP that those behind the killing were adherents of the Salafist movement, which is known for its radical version of Sunni Islam.

They said one of the suspects was active in the League for the Protection of the Revolution, a controversial group linked to the ruling Ennahda party and implicated in attacks on secular opposition groups.

The Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
have been blamed for several violent actions in Tunisia in the past few months -- including an attack on the US embassy last September that left four attackers dead -- with Ennahda being regularly accused by the opposition of protecting those behind the violence.

Larayedh declined to comment on who may have ordered the killing, even as Belaid's widow, Besma Khalfaoui, urged authorities to flush out those responsible.

"It is good to know who carried it out, but for me it is very important to know who ordered it... because this was a very well-organised crime," Khalfaoui told La Belle France's Europe 1 radio Tuesday during a visit to Gay Paree.

"We are asking for a trial, for further investigation, for everything to be known."

Belaid's brother, Abdelmajid, accuses Ennahda of being behind the murder, which the party has denied.

"It's Ennahda which gave the green light to kill my brother," he told AFP.

Khalfaoui was more cautious, saying only that "Ennahda's politicianship is involved."

Posted by: Fred 2013-02-27
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