The Tunisian transitional government breaks with Ben Ali's regime. Now all the ministers in the cabinet, the party leaving the ex-dictator - under pressure from protesters. Also for Ben Ali's clan is tight, many members of his family could continue living in cells rather than villas. Tunis / Paris - A new beginning, the political transition Tunisian President Foued Mebazaâ promised in a televised address, the "total break with the past".These words were the ministers of the interim government on Thursday to action. All members of the transitional government have left the party of ousted dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the RCD, the state television reported. The Cabinet members were responding to demands of protesters.
On Wednesday went again in several parts of the country people to the streets, demanding the dissolution of the RCD. That the old elites are still in power, angered many. In protest against the RCD close to four of the opposition ministers quit the cabinet already. The Tunisian Prime Minister and the interim president were already made earlier in the week came from the RCD and thus demands to separate party and state offices.
Ben Ali and other leading politicians were now excluded from the party. Ben Ali was overthrown on Friday after 23 years in power. Trigger his departure were mass protests against corruption and high unemployment, which had widened in the past week to a popular uprising. Many relatives of Ben Ali Ben Ali arrested dictator fled to Saudi Arabia.
Should he have hoped henceforth to live unmolested in exile, he has, however, disappointed. In Tunisia, on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation against him. It should clarify whether the 74-year-old and his family illegally amassed wealth abroad and managed. In addition, 33 members of Ben Ali's family were arrested.
Will be placed according to a report of the Tunisian TV "crime against Tunisia" to the load. The degree of their relationship with Ben Ali made the channel not available. But he showed numerous pieces of jewelry, watches and international bank cards, which were seized during the arrests.
About the greed of the clan always new details become known. Among the possessions of the family apartments are in the most fashionable areas of Paris, a chalet in the ski resort of Courchevel Nobel, villas on the Cote d'Azur and millions of dollars to accounts in France. In their flight abroad was Leila Ben Ali's wife said go with some 1.5 tons of gold bullion.
Switzerland has been access to accounts and real estate blocked. The European Union provides advice on action to support democratic change in Tunisia and assets of the former despot Ben Ali and his clan to block. In Paris, submitted a three charities corruption complaints against Ben Ali.
The demonstrators set out on the streets of Tunis now fun of the rich dictate wife: a man held as a hair dryer into the air - Leila was formerly a hairdresser.
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