Wednesday, January 12, 2011

After a night of clashes, the army is deployed in Tunis

The Tunisian army was deployed on Wednesday 12 January in Tunis, where tension is rising in the wake of clashes between police and demonstrators broke out overnight in the western suburbs popular. Military reinforcements, armed soldiers, trucks, jeeps and tanks, have emerged in Tunis for the first time since the outbreak of fighting experienced by Tunisia for four weeks.

These reinforcements were posted at intersections of the center of Tunis and the entrance to the city Ettadhamen (Solidarity), where damage to a night of violence were visible. An armored all fires and armed soldiers were positioned at the entrance to this large suburb where the carcasses of vehicles, including buses, fire had not yet been removed, near the head of delegation (sub-prefecture) attacked the day before.

Broken glass and burned tires littered the road to Bizerte crossing Ettadhamen cities, and El Intilaka Mnihla, districts which follow one another in the west of the capital. In Tunis, in addition to large reinforcements of police and special response units, two army vehicles and armed soldiers stood guard on the place of avenues linking France and Habib Bourguiba, opposite the Embassy of France and the great cathedral of Tunis.

This place was the day the scene of demonstrations suppressed by the police. Military reinforcements were also visible around the home of radio and television in the Lafayette area, and others on the passenger seat, which operated the tram terminus. Car traffic was almost normal, rare caps suburbs being caused by rain.

Radio stations broadcast their national and private programs normally, the government radio back largely on actions taken by President Zine El-Ali AbidineBen to defuse the crisis triggered by protests against unemployment in the Midwest and has spread in most parts of the country.

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