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Illegal migration attempt in Djerba: organiser and provider arrested

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Three illegal migration attempts from the island of Djerba were foiled by Coastguard last week. The latest took place on the night of Sunday, November 6, 2016. The organiser and his provider were arrested along with 11 young people who were about to sail off from Sidi Jmour (Delegation of Houmt Souk) to Italy, a security source told TAP. The alleged organiser was arrested during a search of a point of sale and repair of boat engines where two engines, compasses and GPS equipment were found. Nine other people were intercepted in two illegal migration attempts, one from Boughrara and the other from Sidi Jmour, besides the seizure of boats used for this purpose.

National Security Council: prevention, protection and monitoring will be the new strategies against terrorism

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President Beji Caid Essebsi chaired, on Monday, the National Security Council meeting to assess the national and regional security situation and discuss the national strategy to fight terrorism and extremism. The latter was approved during the meeting and signed by the Head of State, according to a Presidency of the Republic press release. Prevention, protection, monitoring and response are the main axes of this strategy which has been devised in several stages with the participation of the civil society, the same source added. The meeting also offered the opportunity to discuss the cases of martyrs Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi. The President of the Republic stressed the need to “determine responsibilities and work to unveil the truth as soon as possible.”

Tunisian PM visits the family of the soldier killed by terrorists last Saturday night

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Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, on Sunday, asked Defence Minister Farhat Horchani to head to Kasserine to visit the family of soldier Saïd Ghozlani, who was killed by a terrorist group last Saturday night. Chahed has also instructed the Minister of Justice to offer his condolences to the family members of the martyred soldier, an official source in the office of the Prime Minister told TAP. He also gave instructions to ensure that “no effort will be spared to find the terrorists responsible for this heinous act” and tasked Minister of Health, Samira Merai with providing psychological support to the victim’s family, said the same source. A terrorist group composed of 20 individuals stormed the soldier’s home located on the side of Mount Mghilla in the town of el-Khraïfiya (Kasserine) on Saturday at around 7 p.m. and gunned him down, a source in el-Khraïfiya who requested anonymity told TAP on Sunday morning. Saïd Ghozlani, a young soldier aged 26 with the rank of sergeant, has been stationed in Medenine (South) for two years. Heavy police and military reinforcements were deployed in the region. Extensive sweeping operations are conducted across the area in search for the terrorist group, said military sources.

Organization againts terrorism receives at least 15/20 complaints of torture per month

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The Tunisian organization against torture receives 15 to 20 complaints of torture and mistreatment a month, said its president Radhia Nasraoui. She asserted that torture is a practice that persists in Tunisia. According to the president of the organization, the criminalization of torture (while excluding the prescription) and the creation of a national mechanism against torture are the main gains of the revolution. Radhia Nasraoui participated Saturday in a meeting in Medenine on the relations between citizens and the police. In another connection, the activist voiced readiness to defend the right of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to a fair trial if he confesses his crimes against the Tunisian people and apologizes. She refuses, however, to take up his case, she insisted. Tackling the theme of the meeting, Radhia Nasraoui asserted not to feed any grudge against the police despite the abuses suffered under the old regime.

First edition of Mediterranean Meetings in Human Resources: over 700 are going to partecipate

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Over 700 business leaders, businessmen, human resources managers, academics and students from Tunisia, Algeria, France, Canada and several African countries are taking part in the 1st edition of the Mediterranean Meetings on Human Resources, held on November 4-5 in Yasmine Hammamet, President of the meeting Maha Chehata Meddeb told TAP. Under the theme of : “HR Prospective: Context and Challenges,” the event is organised by human resources managers in partnership with the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies (ITES). The goal is to develop a strategy to promote the management of human resources which will be submitted to ITES to serve as a reference in its prospective studies on Tunisia in 2025. ITES Director Hatem Ben Salem laid emphasis on the need for Tunisia to build a forward-looking vision on employment, investment, business, and human resources management taking into account the major transformations facing jobs and the markets in the next decades, as 50% of the current jobs will disappear he said by reference to several studies.

Minister of Religious Affairs sacked by Tunisian PM

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Tunisia’s Prime Minister sacked the minister of religious affairs on Friday after he made comments on Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi brand of Islam. “Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided to dismiss Salem Abd El Jalil, minister of religious affairs, from his duties due to the lack of respect for government work and his statements that touched principles of Tunisian diplomacy,” the premier’s office said in a statement. The North African state has become a major source of extremists fighting in Iraq, Syria and neighbouring Libya. More than 3,000 Tunisians are believed to be involved and critics say foreign imam recruiters are partly to blame. Meanwhile, Income from Tunisia’s tourism sector, hard-hit by extremist attacks, fell eight per cent in the first nine months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to official figures. From January 1 to September 31, tourism firms took 1.8 billion dinars ($811 million, 730 million euros), against 1.97 billion the previous year, a fall of 8.4 per cent, according to data published on the tourism ministry’s website. That is a drop of 34 per cent on the first nine months of 2014, before two extremist attacks that spelled disaster for the sector.

Tunisian Centre of Research and Study on Terrorism shares the results of its first studies

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“About 40% of a sample of 1,000 Tunisian terrorists are university graduates or have a university degree while 33% have a high school diploma,” Imen Kochbati doctor in sociology and demography said, on Wednesday. Presenting the results of the first study by the Tunisian Centre of Research and Study on Terrorism entitled “terrorism in Tunisia through court records,” Imen Kochbati added that 13% of the sample studied, which involved 384 court cases submitted between 2011 and 2015, are graduates from vocational training centres and 4% are secondary school graduates. The same study indicates that the age groups 25-29 years (275), 30-34 (243) and 18-24 years (204 people) are the most targeted by terrorist networks in Tunisia. Of a total of 1,000 terrorists, 965 are men and 35 are women. More than half (536) are single and 239 married while divorced or widowed represent only about 1%.

Tunisia’s FTDES launched the Tunisian Centre for Research and Studies on Terrorism

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The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) announced, on Wednesday, the launch of the Tunisian Centre for Research and Studies on Terrorism (CTRET). During a conference in Tunis to present this new structure and announce the results of its first study, Abderrahmane Hedhili, FTDES President stressed that the center will be responsible for carrying out studies to analyse the phenomenon of terrorism and to know its various mechanisms and its development in order to reflect on the anticipated solutions that can reduce the proliferation of this scourge in the long term. Hedhili said that from the revolution to date thousands of unemployed young people have emigrated illegally while others were attracted to terrorist networks and smuggling. “It is now necessary to carefully analyse the social phenomena to save our youth and provide them a better future,” he said.

National Security Unito of Tajerouine arrested four Daesh terrorists

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The National Security Unit of Tajerouine (El Kef) has arrested four individuals who “confessed during police custody to having pledged allegiance to Daesh and created a terrorist cell called the Islamic State Cell in Tunisia,” an Interior Ministry statement said on Tuesday. “Investigations began following the arrest of a Tunisian terrorist in possession of a firearm and a laptop containing messages of terrorist connotation”, the same source reads. According to the statement, the investigation later revealed that the Tunisian had links with three other suspicious individuals, who were wanted before being arrested. Several mobile phones, digital cameras, Central Units and other digital media (CD-ROM) were seized. The four suspects were taken into custody on decision of the Public Prosecutor, the same source reported.

Tunisia: the security situation is stable tank toc o-ordination between military and security institutions

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National Defence Minister Farhat Horchani said the security situation in the country is “stable” thanks to a continuous co-ordination between the military and security institutions. The moral of the Armed Forces is high, he stressed, adding that that they are prepared to any threat. We have made significant progress in the fight against terrorism, but risks are still there in view of the instability in the security situation in Libya. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a national conference on the military apparatus and the culture of citizenship, Horchani affirmed that Tunisia co-operates with other countries in countering terrorism. He noted, in this regard, that the presence of foreign military in Tunisia is part of sharing expertise. The minister denied the presence of military bases in Tunisia.

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