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The situation remains tense in the Tunisian city of Sfax, where sub-Saharan migrants have been targeted. This after the death of a Tunisian stabbed during an altercation with foreigners last Monday. Many migrants have locked themselves in their homes, others have been escorted out of their homes by police at the request of local residents, and others have been forced to flee the city.
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By the RFI Special Envoy in Sfax, Lilia Blaise.
At the train station in Sfax, a city in northern Tunisia, more than a hundred sub-Saharan migrants anxiously await the departure of the train to the capital.
Mohamed Mansari comes from Freetown, Sierra Leone. He arrived in Tunisia seven months ago and now seeks to flee Sfax at all costs. “We need help, it’s not easy for us right now. We are suffering a lot. Some young Tunisians came to take our money and our phones. Some had knives,” he told RFI, a notebook in hand, full of phones. It is his only belonging since he was given to him. mobile was stolen
Ousmane Koroma, from Guinea, has been in Tunisia for three years. In a single night, his neighbors kicked him out of his house and injured his hand in an altercation. “I’m living on the street, without food, or water, or anything. I’m desperate and I’m scared,” he confesses.
Several people have alerted about migrant detentions. They claim that the police have even bussed them to the Tunisian-Libyan border and abandoned them there.
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Tense atmosphere for weeks
A group of Tunisian and international NGOs published a statement on Wednesday, July 5, to denounce these practices.
The signatories “denounce human rights violations” against “migrants, asylum seekers and refugees”. They ask the Tunisian authorities to clarify these facts and intervene urgently “so that these people are cared for”.
For three nights, protesters blocked the road where Nizar Ben Brahim Amri, a Tunisian stabbed to death on Monday, July 3, by three sub-Saharan migrants, witnesses say.
The city of Sfax had been in a tense atmosphere for two weeks, with clashes between foreigners and residents.
“We have opened an investigation for intentional homicide. There are three suspects, who are now in custody,” said Faouzi Masmoudi, spokesman for the Sfax court.
These tensions are not new. At the end of May, a sub-Saharan migrant was stabbed to death at his home by a group of young Tunisians.
