The Tunisian government has imposed a night curfew in Tunis and its suburbs, Saturday, May 7, after "violence and looting", indicating a persistent unease four months after the overthrow of the regime of Ben Ali. A Ettadhamen, a poor suburb, gangs of youths are nevertheless engaged in looting and pillaging in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
Islamists have mobilized to try to restore order in the absence of intervention by police, residents said. Sunday in downtown Tunis, the police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who had gathered for the fourth consecutive day. Number about 200 on the steps of the Municipal Theatre and Avenue Habib Bourguiba, they repeatedly chanted the national anthem before chanting slogans against the police who asked them to disperse, firing tear gas.
Small groups have returned but a large police remained deployed on the avenue. Two motorcyclists, one of whom carried a knife, were arrested. The Tunisian authorities have justified the curfew saying that looting and violence had occurred in the Tunisian capital and its environs in recent days.
Five police stations and the national guard had been burned Saturday. The traces of violence were still visible Sunday in Tunis: advertising signs broken, tires and garbage cans and burning cars on fire. The main Islamist Nahda (Renaissance) "has deployed a number of volunteers to protect people from looting," said one of its members. 
Islamists have mobilized to try to restore order in the absence of intervention by police, residents said. Sunday in downtown Tunis, the police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who had gathered for the fourth consecutive day. Number about 200 on the steps of the Municipal Theatre and Avenue Habib Bourguiba, they repeatedly chanted the national anthem before chanting slogans against the police who asked them to disperse, firing tear gas.
Small groups have returned but a large police remained deployed on the avenue. Two motorcyclists, one of whom carried a knife, were arrested. The Tunisian authorities have justified the curfew saying that looting and violence had occurred in the Tunisian capital and its environs in recent days.
Five police stations and the national guard had been burned Saturday. The traces of violence were still visible Sunday in Tunis: advertising signs broken, tires and garbage cans and burning cars on fire. The main Islamist Nahda (Renaissance) "has deployed a number of volunteers to protect people from looting," said one of its members.
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