A Franco -held Tunisian prisons for many years, convicted of drug trafficking – even though he still denying his involvement in the case – decided that “He wants to let him die“Today’s lawyers announced.

THE Onza Abissu “It has collapsed,” said his Tunisian lawyer, Sauki Tabib, who visited him in prison on Monday. “He said to me: I don’t want to eat anymore, I’m a victim of blatant judicial error“, He added.

Abissu’s lawyers refer to a “judicial joke”. Two separate persecutions were exerted at the expense of the Franciscan. As the years went by, he was tried many times, initially sentenced to life imprisonment, then acquitted, but the Court of Appeal canceled the acquittal.

“This case has been pulling for 17 years now. There were ten trials, four deserts, four acquittals, four appeals by the Ministry of Justice“Said his French lawyers, William Bourdon and Livi Rabon.

The case began in February 2008, when two men were arrested in Tunisia for cannabis trafficking. Abissu was the former owner of the vehicle. While being detained, the two suspects pointed him out as involved in trafficking, but then he recalled, claiming that he “confessed” because they tortured him, Bourdon and Rabons said.

“Today, we mean an alarm on the situation of Onszi Abissu who decided to die after 17 years of judicial cycle“, They added.

“While his 11th trial is coming in the coming months, and while his two co -defendants, who were sentenced to life imprisonment, have been graceful and released for years, our client insists on his innocence and deny him the award of grace.“, The lawyers explained.

Abissu was arrested in Germany in 2009 and published in Tunisia in 2010, when President Zin El Abidin Ben Ali was still authoritatively ruled by the country. He was released immediately after the 2011 revolution and the overthrow of Ben Ali but was imprisoned again in 2021.