11 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior has reported this Tuesday that a group of sub-Saharan migrants have been arrested in the Berges du Lac neighborhood, in the Tunisian capital, during clashes with the Police in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Agency for Refugees. (UNHCR).
In the context of the clashes, the Ministry of the Interior has specified in a statement that the migrants used stones, bottles and other blunt objects, such as iron bars, to prevent the eviction of the makeshift camp.
Finally, the Police have dispersed nearly a hundred migrants, including minors, who with tents occupied the surroundings of the UNHCR headquarters to ask to be transferred to a third country due to insecurity in Tunisia.
Specifically, according to local Tunisian media reports, at least ten people have been arrested after being accused of violence and vandalism in the context of the clashes. The Prosecutor’s Office has opened a judicial investigation against those arrested.
The camps also extend to the surroundings of the International Organization for Migration, an organization that denounced in March that numerous migrants were in front of its office to demand “dignified solutions” to the migration crisis.
The clashes come after Tunisian President Kais Saied advocated the need to “put an end” to the illegal migration of sub-Saharan Africans, stating that they “continue with violence, crime and unacceptable practices.”
The Tunisian president then pointed out that there is a phenomenon of human trafficking that must stop, for which he urged work to be carried out at the diplomatic, security and military levels to put an end to the situation, which he described as “abnormal”.
After numerous complaints from the international community, including UNHCR and the African Union, Saied announced measures in favor of students and sub-Saharan migrants, thus rejecting the accusations of “racism” leveled against him.
