TUNIS - "theft of property" and "illicit financial investments abroad." These charges assumed in the investigation opened by the judiciary against the former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family. The agency reported Tap. Switzerland has frozen the bank accounts opened in Swiss banks by the Tunisian president deposed only by the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Ggagbo.The Swiss measure, which was launched by the Federal Council announced in a press conference by Micheline Calmy-Rey, also extends to all the 'colonels' of the two leaders. In the evening, the Tunisian TV reported that 33 members of the family of deposed President Ben Ali were arrested and showed seizures of gold and jewels.
Meanwhile, the transitional government has announced the release of all political prisoners. But do not stop the riots: the victims of violence in Tunisia are more than 100, the complaint Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Even today, the protesters have returned to protest in the streets of the capital (there are at least 2000 people took to the streets) and new difficulties in the composition of the transitional government of national unity, Prime Minister Mohammed Gannouchi forced to postpone for 24 hours the first meeting of the executive scheduled for today.
Yesterday, five members of the opposition (4 UGTT expression of the union and a party Fdlt) had withdrawn from the executive and to no avail and the resignation of President Gannouchi Foued Mebazaâ the RCD party of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali . The opposition has complained that key ministers, Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs and Finance - among others - remained in place despite their expression of the RCD.
The people took to the streets calling for the resignation of its new transitional government and the banning of the RCD. Even in the province have also renewed demonstrations and protests, which involved several thousand people as a whole. "Ben Ali has gone to Saudi Arabia," shouted the protesters in the capital, followed step by step by a thick cloud of special forces police officers in riot gear.
"Now we must also go the government." And then: "We want a new Parliament, a new constitution, a new Republic! The people rise against the minions of Ben Ali." Among the many protesters brandishing placards and banners written on "Down with the RCD." Frattini: "No threat to the Italians." Eighteenth-century Italians, who made the request, returned to his country''has confirmed Foreign Minister Franco Frattini during a hearing at the Foreign Affairs Committees of the House and joined Senate on recent developments in Tunisia.
The foreign minister also stated that''it took a lot of tourists stay in''vacation spots. Frattini stressed that''there is no danger of any kind''and are excluded, in particular,''the dangers connected to the nationality of the Italians.'' The Minister recalled that Italy is concerned about the''group''of people who worked for the circus Bellucci and that this group of people was protected by the army.
Just today, the people who worked for the circus reached the port of Sfax where he was waiting for a ship of Tirrenia ready for their return.
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