Friday, April 15, 2011

Tunisia: eighteen lawsuits launched against the former president Ben Ali

In an interview on national television Wednesday night, the Tunisian minister of justice, Lazhar Karoui Chebbi said that the charges against ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are "intentional homicide, conspiracy against state security and use and drug trafficking. " The Minister of Justice has also indicated that the transitional authorities were putting together a legal case to obtain the extradition of former president, a refugee with his family in Saudi Arabia since he fled.

Twelve days later, the Tunisian justice was issued on January 26 an international arrest warrant against him and his influential wife, Leila Trabelsi. Mr. Chebbi said that a delegation from the Ministries of Justice and the Interior would soon go to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, to accelerate the operation of the mandates.

Meanwhile, he said, officials from the Ministry of Justice have recently met with delegations from Canada, Switzerland and the United States, all countries concerned by this issue, either for reasons of "ill-gotten gains", from Because of the presence on their soil of persons linked to the clan of the deposed president.

This is the case of Canada, which has taken refuge Belhassen Trabelsi, the brother of the former president.

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