While calm had returned two days in Tunis, the Tunisian police brutally dispersed, Monday 31 January afternoon, with batons and tear gas a few dozen young people gathered in the center of the capital, near the Ministry from within. Journalists saw police chasing young and violently beaten repeatedly with batons while they were ashore.
Several people were arrested and dragged unceremoniously into police vans. In the morning, small groups of protesters found themselves on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the main artery from the center of Tunis to demand the departure of all officials of the Interior Ministry from the former ruling party power, the RCD former president Ben Ali, some even demanding the resignation of newly appointed minister in the transition team.
In the afternoon, dozens of youths had remained on the avenue so that most protesters had left the scene. The riot police intervened to disperse the protesters past, while some youth attacked the storefronts. The police action lasted less than ten minutes, and calm has returned to the center immediately.
Despite some sporadic clashes in the capital knows no violence since the evacuation of muscled up to the Kasbah on Friday night, the epicenter of protest against the transitional government that manages the country since the fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali January 14th. 
Several people were arrested and dragged unceremoniously into police vans. In the morning, small groups of protesters found themselves on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the main artery from the center of Tunis to demand the departure of all officials of the Interior Ministry from the former ruling party power, the RCD former president Ben Ali, some even demanding the resignation of newly appointed minister in the transition team.
In the afternoon, dozens of youths had remained on the avenue so that most protesters had left the scene. The riot police intervened to disperse the protesters past, while some youth attacked the storefronts. The police action lasted less than ten minutes, and calm has returned to the center immediately.
Despite some sporadic clashes in the capital knows no violence since the evacuation of muscled up to the Kasbah on Friday night, the epicenter of protest against the transitional government that manages the country since the fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali January 14th.
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