TUNISIA DENOUNCES “PLOT” AGAINST ITS ARAB IDENTITY

The president of Tunisia, Kais Saied, has provoked an international movement of attention towards this North African country, when he affirmed last Sunday that the increase in the presence of illegal African emigrants can be considered as "part of a plot against the Arab identity -Muslim” of the country.

Saied's words are harsh, but they correspond to the feeling that the population has, at least for the most part, about the behavior of sub-Saharan emigrants, to whom continuous crimes against property and respect for Tunisian laws are attributed.

“There is a criminal plan to change the composition of Tunisia's demographic landscape, and certain individuals have received large sums of money to give residency to sub-Saharan migrants,” said Saied.

However, this statement has been criticized by human rights defense organizations, stating that it goes against the African Charter on the Rights of Man and Peoples. Article 2 of the same prohibits all discrimination based on race, and article 5 insists on respect for the dignity of the human being.

  Tunisia was the first country in North Africa and the Middle East to adopt a law on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, but Saied's exclusion speech highlights that migrants are responsible for crimes, violence and "other unacceptable acts." ”. An accusation supported by the political parties that support Saied.

Government sources who did not wish to be identified have stated that, despite criticism from abroad, sooner or later "they will imitate Tunisia" because the avalanche of illegal African emigrants is not resolved by sending ships to the Libyan coast or accepting them on the coast. Italian without measure. On the contrary, it is this situation that has led Saied to "adopt a position whose main objective is to defend our identity."

Tunisia has been a laboratory of social experiences since President Zine el Abidin Ben Ali was overthrown. At that moment the so-called “Arab spring” began and the entry of the Islamist party “En-Nahda” as the main force in Parliament.

But following the appointment of Kais Saied, with the support of the armed forces and big business, a significant turnaround has taken place, to the point that the Tunisian president has been described as a "Ben Ali dictator."

But it is not only Tunisia that makes tough decisions against African emigration. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced on Monday that he will present a law that prohibits all emigrants who cross the strait from the French and Belgian coasts, from requesting the asylum. Any migrant who believes that upon reaching British shores, at the risk of his life, will not be entitled to asylum and will be deported. A decision that also seems to have the agreement of the British population.

"We are, perhaps, returning to the evil idea of 'the great replacement', invented by the European extreme right, according to which the native European population will eventually become a minority before Arabs, Asians and Africans," he said. repeatedly the French right-wing radical, Eric Zemour.