Friday, February 18, 2011

Reports about stroke: Tunisian ex-President Ben Ali in hospital

Former rulers of Tunisia Ben Ali is obviously in a critical condition: The 74-year-old was taken to a hospital and might have suffered a stroke. In mid-January he had fled with his family to Saudi Arabia. Tunis - Former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali is, according to a confidant of the family for two days in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

According to the news agency is Ben Ali suffered a stroke and are in a coma. Previously had been circulating rumors about the poor health condition of Ben Ali. Upon request, had the Tunisian interim government on Thursday or said they wanted to reports of an instruction of the ex-leaders to the hospital "neither deny nor confirm".


From a pro-government sources said, however, the information to the deterioration of Ben Ali's state "agreed". The Tunisian daily newspaper "Le Quotidien" reported on Thursday that Ben Ali had suffered a stroke. She relied on the French blogger Nicolas Beau. Consequently, Ben Ali is for security under the identity of a "Saudi Arabian emir" theme.

On 14 Ben Ali in January was a result of mass protests by the opposition left the country fled to Saudi Arabia. Previously, he had imposed after 23 years in power the state of emergency, deposed the government and fresh elections announced. Ali had before his departure, according to the newspaper "Le Monde" is trying to land in Paris.

The French government did not want to let him enter. Accounts of the former president had allegedly blocked Ben Ali's wife Leila Trabelsi before leaving also personally visited the Central Bank in Tunis, to pick up 1.5 tons of gold. This was reported Le Monde, citing intelligence information.

Switzerland had eingefrn little later and immovable property of the family. They want to avoid any risk of misappropriation of government property, announced Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. Tunisia had been for weeks of violent protests have rocked the government. The resentment of many, especially young people was directed against high unemployment, high prices and lack of freedoms.

When riots security forces had fired on demonstrators on several occasions, there were numerous deaths and injuries. The riots in Tunisia were one of the triggers for the following mass protests in Egypt, there had led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. In other Arab countries, several demonstrations against authoritarian regimes.

In Libya and Bahrain were in the past few days thousands of protesters into the street.

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