Burn the train station in Tunis, in Tunisia's prisons burned. In Monastir, on the east coast of the country, at least 57 prisoners died in the fire broke out last night in the city jail. In Mahdia, 140 km south of Tunis, residents speak of tens of prisoners who were killed while trying to escape from prison.Similar reports also came from Bizerte and Mahdia. The escape of President Ben Ali in Saudi Arabia has stopped short of violence in the country. "It 's just the first step - people say - the second, what we still need to obtain, is freedom." The capital, yesterday the scene of clashes between police and protesters, today woke up in a mess still.
Every so often a shot. The noise of helicopters to monitor the situation from above. Police cars, army tanks, a large deployment of forces in Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the main street of the center, particularly outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior, where yesterday's clashes had broken out between police and protesters.
Young police officers and plainclothes police control the streets of downtown for hours, many of which are closed to the passage. Getting around the city has become very difficult. In the streets there are only policemen. Intensive monitoring, searches, and a camera in his hands can be a big problem for those walking trying to figure out what is actually happening.
For the third consecutive day, almost all shops are closed. Closed even those of the medina, the old city, where he walks among the waste. Outdated garbage of the old Tunis, we come in hundreds of stones and broken glass that fill the side streets of the Avenue Bourguiba, in the Ville Nouvelle.
They are the remains of yesterday's battle. These are signs of violence, according to some sources, were caused by their own police forces close to Ben Ali. "He - he says - want to create instability in the country to be able to return to rule as the only person capable of restoring order." But several people interviewed say with confidence that Tunisia has now turned the page.
This morning on the newsstands there was the daily La Presse de Tunisie State. Among the few newspaper Le Quotidien was purchased, that a full-page headline: "The will of the people prevails." An unusual, almost unprecedented in this country used to not talk, do not ever criticize the regime.
"Whatever happens, you can not go back - says a local journalist - decided that the people want freedom and will, even if now you open a very complicated and dangerous phase". The starting point should be the formation of a government of national unity in which they can join all political actors, even those hitherto excluded from the scheme.
And in this regard, recently the head of the Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), Mohammed Nejib Chebbi said that the prime minister, Mohammed Gannouchi, offered him to join the national unity government. "Then - added Chebbi - you have to hold free elections under independent control and international." The elections will take place between 60 days and not 2014, as announced yesterday by Gannouchi.
He said today the Speaker of Parliament, Fouad el-Mabzaa, and as required by the Constitution of Tunisia has temporarily assumed presidential powers. In Tunis is the curfew. On the streets there is no one. We hear gunshots in the distance. The military has just been removed from the city center the large photos of Ben Ali.
Stefano Virgin
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