France encourages Ben Ali, who announced Thursday, January 13, liberalization measures after a month of bloody riots and repression, to "pursue" the path of "openness," said the spokesman Foreign Affairs, Bernard Valero. "We listened carefully to the measures announced by President Ben Ali to restore calm and back to violence.We listened to the measures announced for the opening. We encourage them to continue in this way," he said, Friday, January 14. The French government had slightly raised his voice against the regime of Tunisian President worrying about the "disproportionate use of violence" after the worsening of human balance and under pressure from opposition critics and NGOs felt Paris's position too cautious, even accommodating.
From London, Prime Minister Francois Fillon has called for restraint and dialogue, and especially for the first time denounced the repression by security forces of President Ben Ali. Europe 1 radio, the Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie stressed that "the escalation is never the appropriate response." "We hope the measures announced will bring down the tension." "How could we be happy to see people we love into violence? That's why we call upon everyone to show restraint," said the minister, who remains cautious despite the controversy sparked by his remarks to National Assembly on Tuesday.
She had proposed the French expertise in the Tunisian police to "set the security situations." While the International Federation of Human Rights amounts to at least 66 the number of deaths since the troubles began, the line of non-interference and extreme restraint of the French government was more harshly criticized these days.
France will have to adopt "a strong position condemning the unacceptable repression" carried out against social protest, warned Thursday Martine Aubry, the Socialist Party first secretary. The spokesman for the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), Olivier Besancenot, asked the Foreign Minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, "apologize or resign." By its position, Ms.
Alliot-Marie "has clearly sided with the repression that has claimed nearly 70 lives since mid-December," writes in a statement, Mr. Besancenot, for whom "the French government should stop supporting the dictator. " "Ben Ali should leave and let the Tunisian social movement organizations, political opposition to build a new society free from all defects Ben Ali's regime," he concludes.
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