| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa North |
| 'We don't want them back': Tunisians protest against returning jihadi fighters |
| 2016-12-27 |
| Hundreds of people gathered outside Tunisia's parliament to protest against letting jihadists who fought overseas to return to the country. Protesters in Tunis chanted 'no to freedom for terrorist groups' while others held placards saying 'lock the door to terrorism' and 'no tolerance, no return'. Organisers said 1,500 people attended the rally. It was held on the same day authorities said they had tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! three alleged jihadists connected to the suspected Berlin Christmas market attacker, Tunisian Anis Amri. Protestors slammed Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist Ennahda party, who has in the past supported the idea of allowing Tunisian jihadists who 'repent' and renounce violence to return home. President Beji Caid Essebsi said earlier this month that Tunisia would refuse to pardon Tunisians who fight for jihadist organizations. 'Many of them want to return, and we can't prevent a Tunisian from returning to his country,' he said. 'But we will be vigilant.' Following a storm of criticism in the press and on social media, on December 15 he told Tunisian local television that 'we will not be indulgent with the terrorists'. More than 5,000 Tunisians are fighting for jihadist groups abroad, mainly in Iraq, Syria or neighbouring Libya, according to a UN working group on mercenaries. On Friday evening, the country's Interior Minister Hedi Majdoub told parliament 800 Tunisian nationals who had fought for bully boy groups abroad had since returned to the country. Since its 2011 revolution Tunisia has faced repeated jihadist attacks, killing more than 100 soldiers and coppers, as well as about 20 civilians and 59 foreign tourists, according to official figures. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Just drop them in the sea on the way back. From about 15,000 feet. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-12-27 13:16 |
| #1 Your mess, hajji. You get to clean it up. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2016-12-27 02:48 |