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Lhe wave of arrests which landed most of Kaïs Saïed’s political opponents in jail has reached a milestone. A younger doctoral pupil of French nationality, 26 years previous, named Victor Dupont, was arrested in Kram (northern suburb of Tunis) on Saturday October 19.
Eighteen law enforcement officials burst into the small condo he was renting. Several individuals had been with him, together with a Franco-Tunisian buddy who was arrested, launched then arrested once more and positioned beneath arrest warrant on the girls’s jail of La Manouba (Tunis).
Accused of “endangering state security”
Contract doctoral pupil in political sciences, hooked up to the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim Worlds (Iremam), a construction which depends upon the CNRS and the University of Aix-Marseille, the researcher was in Tunisia for a “completely banal sociological process”, says a relative, finding out the biographical trajectories of Tunisians, significantly unemployed graduates.
He was a member of a scientific program funded by the European Research Council (ERC). His analysis apparently had no political character, no hyperlink with regime dissidents. He had spent a number of weeks for his work in Jendouba, within the northwest of the nation, then returned to France. He attended the University of Aix-Marseille earlier than leaving for Tunisia.
On October 19, Victor Dupont was taken into custody by the nationwide guard after which positioned, on Monday 21, beneath arrest by the army justice system to which he now relies upon. He could be suspected of “endangering state security”. He is imprisoned in La Monarguia, on account of a scarcity of accessible locations in a army jail. Since February 2023, this jail has “housed” greater than 60 political prisoners, nearly all of whom are opponents of Kaïs Saïed.
His mother and father arrived in Tunis on October 28 on the finish of the day. At the Quai d’Orsay, we have now the file in hand however we aren’t making an attempt to publicize the affair.
Tunisia’s return to dictatorship
The arrest of a French citizen, not twin nationwide, seems like a warning for foreigners working in Tunisia, whether or not they’re teachers or journalists. The Ministry of Justice had warned the worldwide press earlier than the presidential election of October 6: if their writings had been judged to be “untruthful”, the journalists “would be treated by the courts like Tunisians”.
NGOs are additionally within the crosshairs of these in energy, particularly in the event that they obtain international subsidies (EU, and so forth.). Some members of civil society who handled migration had been imprisoned. Since the coup d’état led by Kaïs Saïed on July 25, 2021, Tunis has modified course, step by step chopping itself off from the West. The most necessary European international locations didn’t touch upon his re-election final October (90.7% of the votes forged, with an abstention of 72%).
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A follower of the “great replacement” idea, the chief step by step eradicated all counter-powers with the assist of the police and the military. One of his two opponents within the election, Ayachi Zammel, was arrested after which convicted earlier than the primary spherical. After a number of categorical trials for “sponsorship falsification” – 10,000 had been wanted to be a candidate – he has already accrued twenty-five years of jail sentences.
The repressive local weather has returned to that of the Ben Ali dictatorship which was introduced down in 2011 by the Arab Spring rebellion. Media delivered to heel, omnipotence of the police, reign of randomness, fabrication of recordsdata to place all important minds behind bars… We have no idea what use Kaïs Saïed, himself an educational, will make of this file regarding a French nationwide .
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