TUNIS - Picking up the call for help of the Tunisian judiciary, Interpol issued an international arrest warrant against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In the evening the body, which is based in Lyon, announced that he had left - through the office of Tunis - Alert the world to its 188 members, in order to obtain the location and arrest of Ben Ali and six members of his entourage, including his wife.
Interpol, therefore, in support of the Tunisian courts, which issued an international arrest warrant against the deposed president, who took refuge in Saudi Arabia, against the wife Leila Trabelsi, and other family members. The announcement by Justice Minister dela Lazhar Karoui Chebbi: the charges are theft and transfer of foreign currency.
The minister stated that "Ben Ali is a person sought by the law of his country. We will prosecute him and members of his family." He also added that the head of his security, General Ali al-Sariati, is accused of "endangering national security." Six leaders of the Presidential Guard, the Praetorians Ben Ali, will instead be tried for inciting violence.
Ben Ali has left Tunisia on 14 January, the day after holding a televised speech to the nation, announcing measures such as lowering the price of primary goods and the guarantee of freedom of the press. Rather than diminish, the protest was popular but grown to induce the President to flee, taking refuge in Saudi Arabia after having exercised power for 23 years, during which his family had full control of the biggest Tunisian companies.
Despite government attempts to normalize the situation underlines the discontinuity with the old regime, the tension in the country remains very high. In Tunis, another day of fighting: they are still ongoing demonstrations outside the headquarters of the government, the Casbah, where police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.
There has been no special gatherings along the central Bourguiba, the scene of marches and protests for days against the government. Thousands to the streets even in Sfax, Tunisia's second largest city and most important industrial center during the general strike. They ask, according to national television that transmits images, the resignation of the Tunisian government.
According to union sources, the general strike called by the Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) joined at least 50,000 people. Public television shows pictures of the crowd demonstrating peacefully, chanting slogans and raising signs. At Sfax 780 companies have their headquarters for more than 50 thousand workers.
10% of Tunisian exports resulting from the production of 180 member companies of Sfax. And tomorrow the UGTT has proclaimed a general strike in Sidi Bouzid, a city southwest of the country where, with the desperate act of street Mohammed Bouaziz, that December 17 was set on fire, started the revolt.
"There will be a general strike and a demonstration to bring down the government," says the deputy secretary general of the union for the region, Ali Zari. Meanwhile, the Tunisian authorities are for the first time on behalf of prisoners escaped from prison after the deposition of Ben Ali on January 14: This is 11,000 people.
Other 2460, most political prisoners were released, while 71 have died. "There were 31,000 detainees in the prisons. Those who have fled are 11,029," said the Minister of Justice. "After an initial appeal on radio stations, 1,532 prisoners were delivered spontaneously," said Chebbi, issuing "an appeal again to all prisoners still on the run to surrender and return to prison." If in Tunisia this is a tangled skein, the perspective for which the works are new transitional executive disputed elections.
Focused on that goal, today began a mission of the EU Commission in Tunisia to discuss with local authorities of the package of measures that the EU is prepared to put in place to support the electoral process. The mission is led by Hugues Mingarelli, director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) for the Middle East.
"The High Representative has asked Mingarelli Catherine Ashton to carry out this mission - said its spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic -. Mingarelli is already in place and will stop some day." Same willingness by the U.S., the voice of Jeff Feltman, assistant secretary of state, that America is ready to assist Tunisia in preparation for its "first free elections." Feltman also encourages the Interim Government of Tunisia to do more to meet the demands from the population.
"The current Government has made encouraging statements and moved good steps towards the need for new elections - said Feltman - for greater openness, for meaningful reform. It 's a time of great excitement in the history of Tunisia, with great challenges but also great opportunity. " From France comes the news instead of torpedoing the ambassador in Paris to Tunis.
Pierre Menat pays so glaring gaffe: In a telegram sent to the Elysée Palace and the Foreign Ministry in Paris a few hours before the flight of Ben Ali from Tunisia, January 14, wrote that the former president of Tunisia "has regained control of the situation ". Menat, 60, will be replaced by Boris Boillon, 41 years young diplomat, ambassador to Baghdad since 2009 and former adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy. 
Interpol, therefore, in support of the Tunisian courts, which issued an international arrest warrant against the deposed president, who took refuge in Saudi Arabia, against the wife Leila Trabelsi, and other family members. The announcement by Justice Minister dela Lazhar Karoui Chebbi: the charges are theft and transfer of foreign currency.
The minister stated that "Ben Ali is a person sought by the law of his country. We will prosecute him and members of his family." He also added that the head of his security, General Ali al-Sariati, is accused of "endangering national security." Six leaders of the Presidential Guard, the Praetorians Ben Ali, will instead be tried for inciting violence.
Ben Ali has left Tunisia on 14 January, the day after holding a televised speech to the nation, announcing measures such as lowering the price of primary goods and the guarantee of freedom of the press. Rather than diminish, the protest was popular but grown to induce the President to flee, taking refuge in Saudi Arabia after having exercised power for 23 years, during which his family had full control of the biggest Tunisian companies.
Despite government attempts to normalize the situation underlines the discontinuity with the old regime, the tension in the country remains very high. In Tunis, another day of fighting: they are still ongoing demonstrations outside the headquarters of the government, the Casbah, where police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.
There has been no special gatherings along the central Bourguiba, the scene of marches and protests for days against the government. Thousands to the streets even in Sfax, Tunisia's second largest city and most important industrial center during the general strike. They ask, according to national television that transmits images, the resignation of the Tunisian government.
According to union sources, the general strike called by the Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) joined at least 50,000 people. Public television shows pictures of the crowd demonstrating peacefully, chanting slogans and raising signs. At Sfax 780 companies have their headquarters for more than 50 thousand workers.
10% of Tunisian exports resulting from the production of 180 member companies of Sfax. And tomorrow the UGTT has proclaimed a general strike in Sidi Bouzid, a city southwest of the country where, with the desperate act of street Mohammed Bouaziz, that December 17 was set on fire, started the revolt.
"There will be a general strike and a demonstration to bring down the government," says the deputy secretary general of the union for the region, Ali Zari. Meanwhile, the Tunisian authorities are for the first time on behalf of prisoners escaped from prison after the deposition of Ben Ali on January 14: This is 11,000 people.
Other 2460, most political prisoners were released, while 71 have died. "There were 31,000 detainees in the prisons. Those who have fled are 11,029," said the Minister of Justice. "After an initial appeal on radio stations, 1,532 prisoners were delivered spontaneously," said Chebbi, issuing "an appeal again to all prisoners still on the run to surrender and return to prison." If in Tunisia this is a tangled skein, the perspective for which the works are new transitional executive disputed elections.
Focused on that goal, today began a mission of the EU Commission in Tunisia to discuss with local authorities of the package of measures that the EU is prepared to put in place to support the electoral process. The mission is led by Hugues Mingarelli, director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) for the Middle East.
"The High Representative has asked Mingarelli Catherine Ashton to carry out this mission - said its spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic -. Mingarelli is already in place and will stop some day." Same willingness by the U.S., the voice of Jeff Feltman, assistant secretary of state, that America is ready to assist Tunisia in preparation for its "first free elections." Feltman also encourages the Interim Government of Tunisia to do more to meet the demands from the population.
"The current Government has made encouraging statements and moved good steps towards the need for new elections - said Feltman - for greater openness, for meaningful reform. It 's a time of great excitement in the history of Tunisia, with great challenges but also great opportunity. " From France comes the news instead of torpedoing the ambassador in Paris to Tunis.
Pierre Menat pays so glaring gaffe: In a telegram sent to the Elysée Palace and the Foreign Ministry in Paris a few hours before the flight of Ben Ali from Tunisia, January 14, wrote that the former president of Tunisia "has regained control of the situation ". Menat, 60, will be replaced by Boris Boillon, 41 years young diplomat, ambassador to Baghdad since 2009 and former adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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