Burned tires, anger slogans … the tension rises in the streets in Tunisia. The death of three high school students in the collapse of a wall in their high school in Mazoua on Monday pushed hundreds of inhabitants to demonstrate. The three victims are between 18 and 19, according to Moeez Triaa, Civil Protection spokesman. A student was buried on Monday and the other two on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the residents of this disadvantaged city of the Government of Sidi Bouzid met before a national guard post (Gendarmerie) when demanding “justice.” “We are not going to be silent,” they sang in front of a gendarmes device that tried to calm them.
Other protesters set fire to the tires a few meters from the National Guard post. “We have no work, no protection or anything at all!” Mazoua is marginalized, “a resident shouted, according to a video that circulates on social networks.
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