TUNIS - "Better go somewhere else." The taxi driver recommended to get to the center because, he says, there could be accidents. The Sheraton hotel has already closed the gates, the University is so close, better not be caught by surprise. The day after the bloody events and Thala Kasserine, Tunis wakes up fearing the worst.Swarms of riot police in the streets, the announced student marches are scary. Tension remains high and there's reports of new clashes in Bizerte Kasserine and, with police stations on fire, and yet at the universities of Tabarka and Gafsa and Feriani. The flames of revolt touch Souss, Sfax and Monastir yesterday came up to the holiday center.
So much so that the government has decided to close schools and universities around the country "until further notice." In the capital, the tables of the cafes along the boulevard dedicated to the father of the country of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, there are hundreds of young people, despite their protagonists in this war for "work and dignity," which has already claimed too many victims.
Most of the hands of the police, who did not hesitate to shoot at eye level. Four other hand, if the death date are on your own. Suicide. The great protest of those who have lost hope. They were all graduates, all without a job and without even the prospect of finding one in the future.
Youssef, Rafik, Khaled Makrem and four boys are a little more than two decades. The first two are in the penultimate year law, the latter two have already graduated. Browse La Presse, the French-language government newspaper, sitting at a table in the "Grand Café du Theatre." Get "We, the graduates avail.
Here there is no work. Emigrate? To do what, the window washers at traffic lights?" them why this newspaper has a front-page single line on the clashes, the deaths the day before, but only one photon of the President in support of an editorial on "good citizenship and responsibility of all citizens before the crisis," ripping them bitter smile.
"It shows - Khaled attacks - how are things in this country. To deny the evidence, hide problems under the rug, to pretend that all is well. Protesting is a terrorist act because it undermines the sacred image of Tunisia. With we should restrict foreigners to smile and say welcome. " Makrem says she graduated with honors for two years.
Work? "Needless to talk about it. Anyway, that has nothing to do with what I studied. At the most, but also why we want to know that my family did not, I could find something like vacation in a restaurant or hotel." Perspective? "I do not see - Rafik blurts out - I'm seriously thinking of abandoning the university even if I miss a few exams.
I look at them - the friends shows graduates, ed - and I say, what's the point? Emigrate? To do what, the window washers at traffic lights, the kitchen boy in a pizza parlor, the drug dealer? If I have to be dealt a kick in the face, I prefer to stay here hoping for a miracle. "Youssef who is also the youngest of four, not twenty years to come, he looks to be the intellectual of the group." I say they must continue to fight.
If they're good there, nothing happens. People must understand that this state, this policy that enriches always the same there is stealing the future. Here apparently it seems that everything works, we have the Internet, we have the highest rates of literacy in the Arab world, if you turn to Tunis you realize that has nothing different from many European cities, but the bureaucracy, corruption, nepotism there are killing.
If you're not part of the tour right, you're out. We need a real democracy, a word that does not make much sense here, that no one gives you, but that can only be achieved struggling. "Risks of Islamic fundamentalism?" No, maybe in Algeria, but not here. This is a secular country. As you can see - Khaled smiles - a good thing we've got it.
Among the many risks of this protest, the police shot him there, searching for someone to come to our homes, or even to arrest us for having a chat with a Western journalist, to a turning fundamentalist just do not see. " For several minutes someone is watching us too hard. He seems to be an undercover policeman.
The boys exchanged a quick glance. They get up as if they were one person. They leave a few coins on the table and say hello. Ben Ali for 2012 promised 300 thousand new jobs and assured that he will do everything he who graduated from at least two years to find accommodation as soon as possible.
It may be a bluff, the defense motion that recognizes itself in difficulties - closing "sine die" of schools and universities testifies - because he understood that those young people and others as Youssuf mean business this time.
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