Day: December 23, 2016

“Prime Minister Youssef Chahed will pay a working visit to Germany at the beginning of 2017,” announced the Presidency of the Republic in a press release, Friday. The announcement was made following the phone talk, Friday morning, between President Beji Caid Essebsi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Chahed’s visit in Berlin will be followed by Merkel’s to Tunisia in the first quarter of 2017. During the phone talk, Caid Essebsi and Merkel agreed to increase exchange of visits between the two countries’ senior officials to boost bilatreal cooperation.

 Ex-convict showed signs of radicalization A 37-year-old Tunisia ex-convict was expelled from Italy on Friday for State security reasons, sources said. The man, who had shown recent signs of religious radicalization, was put onto a flight to Tunis. The interior ministry said the move was not linked to the Tunisian man suspected of this week’s attack in Berlin who was killed near Milan on Friday. With Friday’s move, 131 extremists have been ejected from Italy since January 2015, including 65 in 2016. ANSA

Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) Mohamed Ennaceur Thursday offered condolences, at the premises of the German embassy in Tunis, after Monday’s Berlin Christmas market terror attack that killed 12 people and injured 48. Ennaceur signed a book of condolence on behalf of MPs and expressed deep compassion and sympathies to the families of victims and the German people. He also voiced determination to carry on efforts to stand up against terrorism that threatens global security and stability. German Ambassador to Tunisia Andreas Reinicke hailed, for his part,…

President Beji Caid Essebsi, on Friday morning, had a phone talk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The phone talk turned, notably, on Monday’s terrorist attack in Berlin that left several dead and wounded among civilians, a Presidency of the Republic press release said. The Head of State reiterated, on the occasion, Tunisia’s unequivocal condemnation of this cowardly terrorist attack and called on the German authorities for further co-ordination and collaboration to face terrorism which, according to him, threatens the peace and stability of all countries and all societies. The talk…

According to Tunisian website business news, the  terrorist Moez Fezzani landed in Tunisia from Egypt this morning around 10:00 am on December 23.. He was immediately transferred to prison after his wife and children were also returned to Tunisia. He will be interrogated by the Tunisian anti-terrorist units and will have to answer for several accusations including his involvement in the attacks of the Bardo and Sousse, business news added. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera underlined recently that  Fezzani, 46, had previously been captured in Pakistan in 2002. Held at…