In the evening, the incidents escalated, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of protesters, according to the French Agency (AFP) citing testimonies from residents.
Violent clashes between protesters and police broke out yesterday Friday in a district of Tunis, after the death of a young man who was seriously injured during a chase last August.
A group of youths attacked security forces with stones after the funeral of 24-year-old Malek Slimi yesterday afternoon. In the evening, the incidents escalated, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of protesters, according to the French Agency (AFP) citing testimonies from residents.
Protesters set up makeshift barricades, setting trash cans on fire, an AFP correspondent reported.
24-year-old Malek Slimi breathed his last on Thursday, about 50 days after being admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). “He had injured his neck when he fell into a ditch during a police chase,” a relative told a radio station. His family requested an investigation to clarify the case.
The Tunisian police have been criticized many times for excessive use of force.
Fourteen young people have been killed in recent years in clashes with police, according to the Tunisian Union for Human Rights, which denounces police “impunity”.
Moreover, the opposition accuses Tunisia’s security services of resorting to methods reminiscent of the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after President Qais Sayed took full power in July 2021. Sayed’s move shook democracy in the country from which started the Arab Spring in 2011.
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