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Six days ago police descended in Sidi Hassin capital suburb arresting one young guy who died in police custody after few hours. The neighborhood suddenly became hot and the people came to the streets in order to attack the local police station and scuffled erupted. Police conducted violent attacks using large quantity of tear gas, and runned into the crowds with their minivan in order to arrest people. During these descends a group of policemen were filmed while they were several beating a young boy, later on one policeman undressed him, leaving the boy totally naked while continue to beat him trying to bring him in one minivan. Finally the 15 years old boy was arrested.
For the following three nights the neigbourhood saw heavy clashes between the youth and the police, while in the country spreaded the anger against this police brutality that reminded to the dark times of Bourguiba and Ben Ali regimes.
The president of Republic in person intervened in the affair and summoned the prime minister, since he is the home minister ad interim too, and minister of justice in order to express is deep dissatisfaction about this affair. It is for sure the the President of Republic utilized this episode in order to gain terrain in the current institutional crisis between the presidence of republic itself from one side and the gouvernment and the presidence of the parliament on the other side. The immediate effect of this meeting was that the young boy was realesed without any chrges against him on the contrary he is going to legally persecute the policeman who is now suspended from his functions.
Left and revolutionary movement called for a demonstration for saturday the 12th of june from Sidi Hassin to the Minister of Interior Siege in the heart of the capital: Avenue Habib Bourguiba. The demonstration was headed by the family of the boy killed two days before bringing banner and T-shirts with his face and asking for justice, two hundreds people, mainly young, participated.
Demonstrators found a huge police presence blocking the way to home minister, so they started to shout slogans against police brutality and the government.
After a while police start to beating the people with the aim to bring them out from the Avenue Bourguiba, considered the “shop window” for tourists and the local bourgeoisie where according to the gouvernment there should not be place to show the real problems and contraddictions of the country, but this time was harder for the police to accomplish their duty: dozens boys and girls resisted to police violence throwing to them what they found on the street (watch the VIDEO here)
The fight ended in the evening, some people were arrested and another demonstration was called for the 14th of June in order to obtain the release of everyone. Meanwhile the scuffles continue at night in Sidi Hassin and also spreaded in other proletarian neigbourhood like Ettadhamen.
Like the last january-february during the last youth uprising, the revolutionary movement continue to the path of trying to unite the proletarian movement from the neighborhood with the political and student movement of the “center”.
These new events once again confirm how erroneous are reformist and petty bourgeois analysis referring to the political Tunisian situation as a “democratic transition” after the Popular Uprising of 2010/2011 or so called “revolution” as reformists refer to it.
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