Majdi Karbai, former deputy of the constituency of Italy, indicated on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, that the ruling mafia is settling its scores in Tunisia.
In a Facebook post titled “The country is invaded by intelligence services and mafias that settle their scores on Tunisian soil,” Karbai said that four Italian intelligence agents, who were poisoned in Hammamet, were the ones who arrested Angelo Salvatore Stracuzzi, nicknamed “the king of cement” in Tunisia. This information was reported by the Italian press, suggesting that the mafia had reached them and that this was only the tip of the iceberg.
Meanwhile, the Italian agency Nova reported that an Italian intelligence agent who attended a dinner in Hammamet last week was poisoned by a substance that Tunisian investigators identify as cyanide, and is between life and death. Nova confirmed that the victim is in a medically induced coma and that his condition could deteriorate.
The media outlet said that the agent belongs to the Intelligence and Internal Security Agency and would require an urgent transfer to Italy, which the Italian authorities are currently evaluating with Tunisian doctors in a hospital in Nabeul, while two other people involved in the case have been transferred to a poison control center in Tunis.
Nova also reported that the victim was poisoned after consuming a meal at another citizen’s house, followed by a homemade alcoholic beverage obtained by fermentation. According to survivors’ testimonies, the first to consume this drink was a former agent of the Foreign Intelligence and Security Agency, identified by the initials GM, who died.
According to information gathered by Nova, a man and a woman, who were not residents of Hammamet, returned to Italy a few days earlier. The Tunisian police have opened an investigation into the incident. Although the details of the examinations and the results of the autopsy are covered by the secrecy of the investigation, Tunisian judicial sources confirmed that the cause of death was “cyanide poisoning”.
The poisoned agents were part of a team involved in the investigations that led to the arrest of Angelo Salvatore Stracuzzi, recently in Tunisia. Currently in preventive detention in Italy, Angelo Salvatore Stracuzzi had been arrested in Hammamet by Tunisian law enforcement, in collaboration with the Italian police.
He is suspected of having close links to the Cosa Nostra, and was the subject of an arrest warrant in Italy for money laundering, disrupting the freedom of auctions, and extortion, all aggravated by mafia methods.
