Day: December 27, 2016

Racism in Tunisia: a problem of social education or an issue of legislation

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Three students from Congo were harshly attacked in a metro station in Tunis because of their black skin. This incident renews the debate over whether racism in tunisia is a real issue or simply a fake problem raised by activists to draw the attention to some rare isolated cases of aggression against blacks in Tunisa. In fact, after the Revolution, Tunisian activists started discussing problems that used to be a taboo. Among these issues, black segregation.  In the past,  Tunisians pretended to be unified but reality proved the opposite. In…

Milan probe traces Amri’s last movements

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Milan police on Tuesday released a still frame from video surveillance footage taken on December 23 at the Milan Centrale train station showing Anis Amri, the suspect in last Monday’s attack at a Berlin Christmas market, just hours prior to his killing by police in a shootout at the nearby Sesto San Giovanni train station. Milan investigators are retracing Amri’s movements prior to his death last Friday, and the video from the Milan Centrale station places Amri there at 12:58 am on December 23. Police on Tuesday said Amri had…

Revenge on police possible for Amri shooting, Italian ministry

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 Authorities looking for anyone who may have assisted terrorist Maurizio Vallone, head of the interior ministry’s anti-terrorism office, on Tuesday said retaliation against police could be a possibility following the death last Friday of Tunisian Anis Amri, suspected of the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, in a shootout with Milan police. “It’s the first time that a terrorist has been killed in Italy and certainly a uniform has become a privileged target,” Vallone said, adding that two officers in France have been killed. “We must be especially alert,…

Why ISIL fights in Europe ?

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The so-called Islamic State rushed to claim responsibility for last week’s Christmas market attack in Berlin, even with the alleged terrorist Anis Amri then on the run. (The 24-year-old Tunisian was killed a few days later in Milan.) The jihadist group’s eagerness to cash in the propaganda chips is only one indication of how important it was and remains for ISIL to score a hit against Germany — especially after a string of aborted or limited attacks. Germany stands at the very core of ISIL’s strategy for Europe. It’s important to understand why in…

Tunisian State to strengthen monitoring of State lands likely to host terrorists

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Tunisian Secretary of State to the Minister of Finance in charge of Public Property and Land Affairs Mabrouk Korchid  announced he would deploy all efforts to optimize control over state lands around mountain areas, to prevent terrorists from settling there. “These lands, especially those nearing military buffer zones, must be put strictly monitored to insure they do not become hideouts for terrorists. The Secretary of State to the Minister of Finance in charge of Public Property and Land Affairs will present the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior and other competent authorities, with…

Annual list of Best Countries For Business For 2017, Tunisia ranks 87

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Forbes published its annual list of The best Countries For Business For 2017 by rating 139 nations on 11 different factors: property rights, innovation, taxes, technology, corruption, freedom (personal, trade and monetary), red tape, investor protection and stock market performance, in which Sweden heads the best country and New Zealand takes the second place. As regards Tunisia it ranks 87 in the list, Morocco ranks 51,   Algeria  131 while Egypt, it ranks 103. The Report underlined that Tunisia’s diverse, market-oriented economy has long been cited as a success story in…