With the self-immolation Buazizis Mohammed began the Tunisian revolution. Now, reporters from around the world to besiege the house of his family - and find surprising: Committed the 26-year-old desperate not for political reasons? The family is one thing in particular: that it has acted on the death of Mohammed Buazizis in no case of suicide."Un accident, accident!" Assert his brother and sister again in French, so that foreigners understand, yes. Mohammed was the victim of an accident, they assure their visitors. And there are many on this day in the poor house Buazizis: Now that in Tunisia, a little peace has returned, seems to be just over half the reporters gathered there from all over the world to Sidi Bouzid to have opened.
Here they want to investigate the origins of the Tunisian revolution. Dozens of reporters, cameramen, Tonmänner throng the narrow courtyard Buazizis. Mother, siblings, even distant relatives are besieged. Every journalist wants to reconstruct how the self-immolation of a 26-year-old breadwinner of the family on 27 December could trigger a popular uprising that drove the Tunisian Ali Ben despot from office.
Sidi Bouzid is a dreary dump. It is located in the predominantly agricultural heart of Tunisia. That after a long drive through olive groves, the 40,000-inhabitant town, approaches reveal only the dumps, which lie like a belt around the city. This will be a month before the drama has played, which is now glorified the birth of Jasmine Revolution: A graduate without a job who thinks he and his family by selling fruit on water, lights up in protest against the youth unemployment in Tunisia.
Thus, the version of events, the news agencies had already agreed days after self-immolation. The truth can never find the site visit, but turns out to be unfounded so many thing about the case in the circulation: "My brother had indeed high school, but he has not studied," says Salem Buazizi.
"We are all completely apolitical." Mohammed has been doused with gasoline, that's for sure - but his sister Leila comes up with a surprising explanation for why he did so: "He could not bear the shame of a woman to have been slapped," she says. Want to kill her brother had no case. Mohammed had gone to the gas station and got paid on the fuel - and then scolding alarm was jumping around and swearing.
He had apparently struck accidentally with a cigarette lighter a spark that put it on fire. Whether that's the truth or the family with this history - particularly bad in Islam - will save ignominy of suicide remains unclear. It is certain that the fire extinguisher, tried to delete with the friends and relatives standing around the fire, did not work.
Buazizi suffered severe burns and was until his death on 4 January in a coma. What Buazizi Mohammed is on that Friday five weeks ago, actually went through my mind is, can never be ascertained. It is clear that his self-immolation was the sign had been waiting for Tunisia. Within days, thousands protested against the regime in Buazizis with Ben Ali.
Against the Jugendarbeitslosigekeit against the police repression, for more freedom: Buazizis name was exploited by many groups here and for many purposes. Poverty is also joined by the fear that television discovered the special significance in the history of the martyr. The station al-Jazeera "a rose early on the story, sometimes the entire Arab world was talking about the young man and his desperation.
The name of his hometown became a buzzword, tens of thousands of Internet users marked their Facebook pages and Twitter posts with "Sidibouzid. Finally came the regime is no more past Buazizi: Eleven days after his "accident" had triggered nationwide protests, visited President Ben Ali the young man in the ICU, and made the family of the seriously injured a gift of money equivalent to 10,000 euros.
But because it was too late. The uprising against the regime could not be stopped. On 14 Ben Ali in January fled the country. Mohammed would have wanted all this? says "I do not know," his sister Leila. It tells of a young man who was not sure GEBN a hero. Converted 3:00 to 5:00 in the evening € Mohammed brought home from the greengrocer, lived like the mother and five siblings.
The father died long ago. To starting their own family could not think Mohammed. He did not have the money, a wedding and the dowry required to pay. joined to poverty, the fear: He is not the license as a fruit seller could afford, Mohammed worked off. He was living in constant fear of the authorities, against the arbitrariness of it is in the Tunisian police state is not being made.
"They have treated him like a dog, always beaten and insulted," says Leila Buazizi. it may not yet such indignities have driven to his desperate act? "Those who mucked emigrated to jail" Except his death is a story of Mohammed, you can probably tell you about every other young man here on the flat land.
The blessing of the above-average economic growth of Tunisia is in this region do not, there is little work. Sidi Bouzid town is marked by loitering young unemployed. The only factory in the city employs only women. For the equivalent of 40 euros a month, they sew clothes for European companies.
The statutory minimum wage in Tunisia at 120 € a month, but when do the aliens pressure, yields to the state. The workers have so far had no pretext to demand the minimum wage, says Omar Walia, an unemployed lawyer for ten years in Sidi Bouzid. "Who aufmuckte emigrated to jail." Walia is now hoping for better times.
"I trust that the new government will allow us to demand our rights." The right to work are our top priority. Sometime that afternoon, three young men were cut into large gift packages of paper carry through the courtyard into the house of Buazizis. The Tunisian Internet service provider Hexabyte has decided to capitalize on the martyr legend.
The marketing strategies of the company have sent over a computer as a gift, install the three technicians now in the bedroom. A free Internet access for life completes the charity, along with a job offer to Leila. The nurse can begin at any time in the advertising department of the company in Tunis.
The 24-year-old is clearly overwhelmed. "I can not decide now," she repels. The media exploitation of the tragedy continues.
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