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2012-05-14
Tunisian security services stage protest
The labour union for Tunisia's internal security forces organised a protest in Tunis on Sunday (May 13th) to demand legal protections during and out of working hours, TAP reported. According to union head Montassar El-Matri, the protest was organised in solidarity with police officers.
Nacef Nassib, General Secretary of the Union of the National Guard, said that a security officer cannot ensure the protection of citizens if he himself "does not feel protected by the law".
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témoin 2012-5-17
You do not make something new out of something old. The murderers of yesterday are still here from top to bottom. By what miracle would the morals and practices change if we do not start by cleaning up the top, the ranking officials? That is why we need political will. So, who embodies this new vision? No one right now. What is on its way may even be worse than what is behind us. Anything is imaginable.
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Anonymous 2012-5-14
For half of a century, the Tunisian security forces were a bunch of thugs that had no respect for any law. They were only good for intimidating the population, bullying people and beating and scamming them. Empowered by the immunity that the dictatorship granted them, the police officers were also assassins and executioners, who tortured and raped whomever they saw fit. Today, the situation is reversed and they – the people who for so long broke the law – are asking for legal protections.
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