Tunis, Special Envoy - Impatience makes them stretch the neck and elbows to push opaque doors. But very quickly, irritation wins the reception hall of arrival of the international airport of Tunis-Carthage. Why does fate Kamel Jendoubi not it? "He was forbidden to enter his true nationality on the landing card" blows a voice."Kamel, Tunisia!" Attendees chanted immediately before singing the national anthem of Tunisia. "Bottoms" benali! "A woman outraged at the border police. The fall of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali opened the doors locked as Tunisians thought for a long time. This is the case of the President of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Kamel Jendoubi, back to Tunisia after seventeen years of forced absence.
One after another, the exiles, who have all been great criticism of the regime of Mr. Ben Ali, return. Monday, January 17, this well-known activist for human rights; Tuesday, the opponent Marzouki, Wednesday, perhaps the Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi ... "The other day I even received a call from Australia a man who said his desire to return, enchanted Mokhtar Trifi, president of the Tunisian League of Human Rights (LTDH).
All those parties have the right to return today with dignity. "Party in France without hope of return since 1994, denied his Tunisian passport since 2000, Mr. Jendoubi, who was accompanied by his wife and children can not hide his emotion. Pressed on all sides, it must lean against a wall.
In 2005, he was not allowed to attend the funeral of his father. Around, figures known activists in Tunisia came express their delight - the president of the International Federation of Human Rights, Belhassen, the lawyer Radia Nasraoui, the leader of the Tunisian Communist Workers' Party (POCT), Hamma Hammami, just released from prison, former MP Khémaïs Chammari, etc..
All have another reason to rejoice: for twenty-four hours, the headquarters of the LTDH, closed for years reopened. Tuesday was the turn of Marzouki, 65, her also activist for human rights, treading on Tunisian soil. Exiled in France for over ten years, doctor, founder of the small party the Congress for the Republic, has already announced his candidacy for the presidential election.
As had done in Mar1994, which earned him, then a short stay in prison. The laity, as they define themselves, rushed to be first, before the Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi, whose arrival is watched with concern by some of the Tunisians. In exile for twenty-two years, installed since 1991 in a suburb of London, professor of philosophy, aged 69, had fought hard to former President Bourguiba.
Sentenced to death, Mr. Ghannouchi was later pardoned by Mr. Ben Ali himself ... He has since created a small party, Ennahda, banned in Tunisia. It has not yet specified the date of his return. "We must ensure that its security is very real," suggests one of his deputies. With the entry, made or coming on Tunisian territory of these three men (Messrs.
Jendoubi Marzouki and Ghannouchi) of very different sensibilities, we measure the real breakthrough made in Tunisia after years of authoritarian rule. Monday, announcing the formation of a government of national unity to prepare the presidential and parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi - an unrelated namesake - said that all prisoners of conscience were released.
A message that is intended primarily for Islamists harshly repressed during the reign of Mr. Ben Ali. Four prisoners are thus concerned Ennahda. The Islamist leader has said nothing about his political intentions, but his party, like the poet, will come out of hiding. A general amnesty law should be drawn.
Finally, the head of government will soon set up a commission of inquiry into the actual record of violence during the protests, according to latest figures released by the militia, 78 people died during the conflict. Barely formed, the Government has been called a "charade" and "false opening" by Mr.
Marzouki, which rejects its composition, including the retention of eight ministers of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) party of former President Ben Ali. Isabelle Mandraud Article published in the edition of 19.01.11
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