Metlaoui (south-west of Tunisia), correspondence - Everything seemed calm, Saturday, Jan. 8, early afternoon, in the souk Metlaoui, a town of 50,000 inhabitants in the region of Gafsa (south- West of Tunisia). The stalls of the souk, so full of fruits and vegetables. Women talking, children playing, when a man emerges as a fugitive."They're coming ... They will break everything!" The hubbub of the discussions stop. The new, repeated a hundred times, fuse, going from one stand to another. Within minutes, mothers grabbed their children. Bags and cartons are thrown to the ground. Feverishly, stands empty. Farther downtown, mounts a dull murmur.
Like a distant hum, threatening. "They took him back to Tunis and will bury him," said a tall man. The more adventurous back pain with the flow of those who, conservative, prefer away. Now, cries, gasps almost magnified gradually. At the first intersection, the street emptied. On the left front of a somber procession of young lead, 400 to 500, maybe more.
Shoulder against shoulder, they occupy the entire width of the artery. No banner. Foremost on a stretcher improvised from metal, we guess a body, draped in a red cover and white. Faces are tense, marked by anger.
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