Tunisia, a garrison for normality

The day after our evening shots with the camera among the demonstrators in the square Kasba, I'll see how close the garrison, after two continuous weeks. Sofian recognize me - the rest of Europe there are very few journalists - and speaks with inspired air and emotion: "It 's an historic day that too.

The square was the government buildings is now the Piazza del Popolo. On January 14, everybody knows, we chased the dictator, but now we have driven the dictatorship. " The "historic day" was held peacefully on Thursday evening between March 2 and Interim President of the speech on Friday afternoon March 3 with a few thousand protesters festive under the rain in the square.

Revolt in Tunisia and Egypt, the weak EU position: "Too many interests at stake"

While Tunisia by the revolutionary wave has hit Egypt, the European Union can not get beyond tepid statements. Too many, moreover, the interests at stake in the Mediterranean because Brussels may raise their voices against what threatens to become a real massacre. Even before the riots in Egypt, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (Emhtn) denounced in no uncertain terms the "closeness" of some EU states with the Tunisian regime.

Egypt, Suleiman: Mubarak Ben Ali is "The EU" strongly supports the transition

Tahrir Square in Cairo is filled once again for "departure on Friday," according to the definition of opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei. In recent days, in fact, the Nobel Prize was demanding the resignation and departure of President Hosni Mubarak before the day today. Mubarak said in an interview the former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is just trying to prolong the life of his "toxic regime." For its part, however, the Egyptian Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, has wanted to make clear that "Egypt will never be like Tunisia," and that President Mubarak will not leave the country, "as it had to the Tunisian President Ben Ali.

"The revolution will expand to other countries of Tunisia in North Africa"

"We hope to bring this revolution beyond the borders of Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt over the Maghreb, against dictatorships and democracy." Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and dissident, is convinced that the 'bread riots' that filled the streets of his country from December 17 last year and took down the regime of Ben Ali was only the first spark of a wider rebellion in Arab world.

Born in Tunis in 1950, is Bensedrine human rights activist and editor of Kalima, online newspaper censored in Tunisia. What is the situation on the streets of Tunis? After months of struggle, the people have organized and young people were mobilized to control the territory against the armed remnants of the old dictatorship.

Tunisia, army against the militias attacked the presidential palace Ben Ali

The old regime tries to resist. The militias of the former Tunisian President Ben Ali are not there to lose everything. They fear the purge after 23 years of unchallenged rule. So in the evening the army under the command of the new leadership from the assault on the presidential palace in Carthage, a suburb of Tunis, where they holed up some elements of the presidential guard loyal to Ben Ali.

Tunisia, dozens of deaths in prisons in revolt. Elections in two months

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.