Any peaceful demonstration or protest “is contrary to the provisions imposed by the state of emergency,” Minister of the Interior Najem Gharsalli said on Tuesday.
Among the security measures recently adopted, there is the closure until September 14 of Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis city center.
This decision “has no relation with the national march scheduled for September 12 to protest against the economic reconciliation bill,” stressed the Minister of the Interior on the sidelines of the meeting of the national committee for disaster reduction.
The closing of Habib Bourguiba Avenue aims to “guard against terrorist threat in this critical period,” said Gharsalli, referring to the commemoration in September of “painful and bloody events” such as the attacks on the “World Trade Centre” in the United States on September 11 and also the attack on the US embassy in Tunis on September 14.
“The Ministry of the Interior has to adopt necessary security measures to avert any other terrorist attack,” the Minister of the Interior insisted.
Gharsalli said terrorist organisations had posted on social networks threats targeting rallies, sit-ins or protests.
“Government officials, political parties, members of the civil society and citizens should require the Ministry of the Interior to enforce the law on the state of emergency,” he noted, saying Tunisia is still “under terrorist threat despite the improved security situation.”
Source: http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php/politics2/29408-any-peaceful-demonst...
