Everyone in Tunisia has surely made the link between house arrest, travel bans and the fight against corruption. President Saïed does not want to allow those involved to flee. But, as assured Me Chawki Tabib, ex-president of the National Authority for the fight against corruption (INLUCC), himself under house arrest since August 20, “it is not normal that the agents apply verbal decisions, they have no paper ”.
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Confusion reigns among businessmen resorting to frequent travel. “The decision to let A pass and forbid B to leave does not meet fixed criteria”, underlines this Tunisian entrepreneur with markets in Africa. He usually spends two weeks in Tunisia and two weeks on site abroad. “I feel that the security agents are disturbed and apologize kindly by asking me to return and postpone my trip for a few weeks,” he explains to El Watan, finding “legitimate” the actions of the ministry of ‘Interior. “Corruption has destroyed everything and the country needs guts to be turned around”, he adds, adding that “for the moment, it’s a jumble. But, it will settle down. ”This attitude is not shared by everyone.
Other businessmen are afraid of being wrongly accused. “Our foreign partners could doubt our integrity,” they protest. They ask the authorities to speed up the verification procedures so as not to see their affairs go up in smoke. Same anger among the South France deputy of the democratic bloc, Anouar Ben Chahed, who specifies that “the travel ban applies to all deputies. Those who were able to leave the country had foreign passports ”. The anger is at its height in Me Chawki Tabib, who said in a post on his Facebook page “to have filed a request for the suspension of the execution of the decision of house arrest, pronounced against him”.
Mr. Tabib said that on Tuesday, August 24, he filed two complaints with the UN human rights bodies. The first before the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, based in Geneva, and the second before the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers to the same body, against Ridha Gharsallaoui , responsible for the management of the Ministry of the Interior.
The latest developments in Tunisia show that President Saïed’s team is refining its strategy. “It is clear that nothing was prepared before July 25. It is therefore not easy to change the structures of the State in such a short period of time, ”explains political scientist Mohamed Bououd.
He said “to understand the current vacillations, as the State has been weakened during the last decade”. Mr. Bououd does not seem to be afraid for democracy in Tunisia. “it’ll be OK ! I keep my fingers crossed that this will be the real turnaround of the 2011 Revolution, ”he hopes. The political scientist draws attention to the good results recorded during the month of August in the fight against Covid-19, following the appeal for help launched by President Saïed to the international community.
More than two million Tunisians are fully vaccinated (22%), while the same number is awaiting their second dose. “Half of the population should be vaccinated by early October,” according to the president of the National Vaccination Commission, Dr Hechmi Louzir. This was possible thanks to the seven million doses of various vaccines, landed in Tunisia, in addition to the vaccines purchased directly by the country. “It is a good indicator, while waiting for revealing results in the fight against corruption”, presumes Mohamed Bououd.
