France "has not received any request for host" Ben Ali

Just hours after the departure of Ali Zine El-AbidineBen, the French government initially refused to comment on reports of a coming of former Tunisian president in France. According to information from the World, a flight from Tunisia landed at Le Bourget, Friday, January 14 to 19 h 30, carrying a daughter and a granddaughter of Mr.

Ben Ali accompanied by a governess. A second plane arriving in vacuum was asked not to land on the national soil. A third plane was en route to Paris. At the highest level of the French state, it says do not wish to bring Mr. Ben Ali in France. The Foreign Ministry said that France "has not received any calls home" the Tunisian president at large and would consider any possible request "in accordance with the constitutional authorities of Tunisia." The Elysee Palace, who spoke from a situation of "extreme complexity" in Tunisia, "noted the constitutional transition" and "wants to healing and an end to violence" in the country.

For Benoît Hamon, spokesman for the Socialist Party, France must "be fully mobilized to assist in the affirmation of sustainable democracy" in this country. "The worst outcome would be that the Tunisian people is liberated from an authoritarian regime, for this new freedom it is confiscated by another authoritarian regime," he warned.

"French diplomacy should commit themselves unequivocally in favor of democracy in Tunisia, which the Tunisian people has shown that inhaled with force," said the boss of the PS, Martine Aubry. The UMP and its secretary general Jean-Francois Cope said "take note" of the departure of Ben Ali.

Mr. Cope "express the hope that calm will soon return to Tunisia and a democratic transition can take place soothed." President Barack Obama has condemned the use of violence against the Tunisian "expressing their opinions in a peaceful manner" and called on all parties to remain calm and to refrain from violence.

"I salute the courage and dignity of the Tunisian people," he said in a statement. The European Union called for "sustainable democratic solutions" in Tunisia before leaving the country, Mr. Ben Ali has promised early elections within six months. "We believe that the Tunisian people have the right to choose their leaders, and we follow closely the latest developments in Tunisia," said the spokesman of the U.S.

National Security Council, Mike Hammer.

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