Continued violence and looting stormed the presidential palace

TUNIS - More chaos and violence in the capital of Tunisia. waiting for the new government of national unity. Before the shooting of some snipers in the city center, then neutralized by the intervention of security forces who used tanks and armored vehicles in the streets of downtown. Then the onslaught of army units at the presidential palace in Sidi Abu Said in high places in the suburbs of the city.

An attack that is aimed at certain elements of the presidential guard Ben Ali, barricaded in the building. The brother of the deposed president, Kaies Ben Ali, was arrested along with four policemen, trying to cover his escape, opened fire killing four people and wounding 11. Al Jazeera announced the arrest of former Interior Minister Rafik Hadi Kacem, got Beja, his hometown, removed from office in recent days, before the president escape.

It 'a matter of hours the announcement of the new government of national solidarity, where there are members of the opposition, but also of the old establishment. On the outskirts of Tunis and the people trying to organize defense committees, many groups of looters and vandals have been clearly identified as being composed of Ben Ali, or partisans of the former regime linked by police.

The country's main union, the UGTT, has launched an appeal on national television for the formation of safety committees in the district so that people can defend themselves in case of attack. But the fourth victim of the last hours is Imed Trabelsi, nephew of the wife of Tunisian President Ben Ali, who died after an attack on Tunis, probably with cold.

The man died in the military hospital in Tunis, where he had been. Imed, nephew of Mrs Ben Ali and the rest of the clan Trabelsi, the Tunisians are considered a symbol of corruption and the plundered wealth in the country. Meanwhile, security forces have managed to track down and kill the snipers who were shooting in central Baghdad in the area close to the central bank.

E 'dead, but of a heart attack, also the director and spokesman for the Tunisian President Zin El Abidin Ben deposed Ali, Abdelaziz Bin Dhiya. According to reports from the Tunisian radio 'Kalima', one of the most trusted advisers of the former head of state, the same Ben Ali removed from his post last Thursday in an attempt to stop the uprising, died on Friday afternoon.

His heart stopped after he learned of the escape from TV's Ben Ali from Tunisia. The Tunisian army has so far arrested about three thousand policemen Tunisian considered loyal to the deposed president, Zin al-Abidin Ben Ali. According to Al-Jazeera television reported, among them was arrested a group of 50 agents of Ben Ali's personal guard who tried to escape on board some buses to Libya (which would, according to the police, including those responsible for against looting shops and civilian houses in Tunisia).

It 's still locked in a circus Sfax Puglia yesterday asking to be allowed to return. Eighty artists, women and children, fearing for their safety. The Foreign Ministry reassures. The governor Vendola appeals.

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