memorandum Tunisia

A few days after the closed-door press conference which saw Ursula Von Leyen, Giorgia Meloni and the president of Tunisia Kaïs Saïed together, yet another piece of news arrives from the Mediterranean of a terrible shipwreck, which occurred on the night between the 13th and 14th June.off Pylos, Greece. There are 78 confirmed victims so far.However, there is talk of hundreds of missing people which could raise the death toll to 600, according to the latest estimates.Among the survivors, some reported that in the hold of the boat there were "at least 100 children”.Overall there were around 750 people present, coming from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan and Palestine. While operations at sea continue, for the umpteenth time a pattern of denied or rebuffed responsibilities is repeated, which we had recently seen with the Cutro shipwreck, and which we are seeing now with the continuous changes of version of the Greek authorities, the conflicting versions.The Frontex agency has for...

Abuse.Violence.Rape and sexual assault.For a year and a half, the list of abuses and violations affecting the Tunisian security apparatus has become longer and longer.In particular since February 2023 when the President of the Republic Kais Saied delivered a harsh state speech against the sub-Saharan community present in the country accusing it of carrying out a real ethnic substitution of the Tunisian population.Since then, the xenophobic and racist violence has become increasingly visible and has directly affected the security forces of the small North African state. To stop migrants we pay authoritarian, racist, violent governments:what is happening in President Saied's Tunisia An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian has documented what this segment of the population has been forced to endure for some time.It is also undergoing it through tools, equipment and training made available by the European Union and with a brutality that demonstrates the complete opp...