Weapons were seized in the house of a family member of the wife of deposed President Ben Ali, according to images broadcast on public television, Friday, January 21, the first day of a three-day national mourning decreed day during the first cabinet of the transitional government. Sniper rifles precision, pistols, shotguns and cartridges were hidden under sand in the garden of a villa belonging to a family member Leila Trabelsi, wife of the ousted president who fled the country a week ago under popular pressure.State television showed footage of police busy in this house, the day after the announcement of the arrest of 33 members of the family of Ben Ali, who had put the country in its grip. In the center of Tunis, a large police presence was deployed again on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, in anticipation of a new demonstration to demand the resignation of the transitional government, because of the presence within it of many ministers the old regime.
On this day of prayer Friday, the downtown streets of the capital were less crowded than the last days and most shops closed, apart from the cafes and bakeries. The new government has decreed that mourning "in memory of the victims" of "Jasmine Revolution" - more than a hundred dead since mid-December according to the UN - adopted a draft law on general amnesty and decided the resumption of classes in schools and universities "next week".
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