Police officers and unsanctioned protesters in TunisiaPARIS, Jan 15A correspondent for major French newspaper Libération was beaten by police during an unsanctioned protest in Tunisia, the newspaper itself reported. dispersal of protesters in the center of the country's capital. Opposition Tunisian parties and movements held protests against the summer decisions of President Qais Said to freeze the activities of parliament. Promotions were held despite the current restrictions due to COVID-19. Several dozen people were detained during the protests. According to the newspaper, its correspondent Mathieu Galtier filmed the brutal detention of one of the demonstrators during the protest. According to him, at that moment a policeman approached him, although he told him in French and Arabic that he was a press worker. After that, the policeman tried, allegedly, to take his phone away from him. «They (the policemen — ed.) began to beat me everywhere, I ended up on the ground, curled up in a fetal position, I shouted that I was a journalist. One of them doused me with gas with close range. They kicked me. In the end, they took my phone, press card, and left me there,» the correspondent of the publication said. />In Tunisia, nine people were sentenced to deathThe journalist was assisted by representatives of the fire and rescue service. After he came to his senses, the police escorted him to the station. There he was given a phone, but without an SD card, on which pictures and videos of the protest were recorded, after which he was allowed to «leave». A doctor in one of the Tunisian clinics recorded a «scratch 10 centimeters in diameter» on the correspondent's forehead, a bruise on his right arm, «bruises on his back, upper body and in the abdomen», as well as swelling on his left leg. According to the newspaper, in addition to correspondent, a French photographer was hit with a truncheon during the demonstration and one of the Italian journalists was detained.Tunisian authorities put ex-president Marzouki on the international wanted listThe leadership of the French Libération «in the strongest terms» condemned the attack on its journalist. Representatives of the newspaper filed an official protest with Tunisian Ambassador to Paris Mohamed Karim Jamoussi, demanded the return of confiscated data and an investigation into the attackers. Against the backdrop of mass protests against parliament and the Islamist An-Nahda party, Tunisian President Kais Said suspended the legislative assembly from July 25 and dismissed first Prime Minister Hisham al-Meshishi, and then a number of ministers. Said later appointed a new prime minister. The An-Nahda party, led by Parliament Speaker Rashid al-Ghannouchi, called on Said to engage in a national dialogue to resolve the problems, but called his actions unconstitutional and tantamount to a coup. Tunisia became the first Arab country to As a result of popular unrest, dubbed the «Jasmine Revolution», President Ben Ali, who ruled Tunisia for more than 20 years, was forced to abdicate and leave the country. Anti-government unrest in Tunisia (Jasmine Revolution, 2010-2011)
