The Tunisian who Wednesday was arrested by German police in an anti-terrorist action, is suspected in his homeland of involvement in the bloody attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March 2015. This was announced by Justice in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The sixth anniversary of the popular uprising in Tunisia this weekend ended in riots. Demonstrators clashed in several places in the North African country with the police.
Tunisia has arrested three people who would have been in contact with the Tunisian Anis Amri, the presumed perpetrator of the bloody attack Monday on the Christmas market in Berlin. This was announced by the Tunisian authorities, according to various German media Saturday.
The Tunisian suspected of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin also has a criminal record elsewhere. Before he came to Germany he was in Italy four years in prison for arson in a school.
The European mission to help the Libyan authorities has been extended by one year to strengthen surveillance. EU member states Thursday also approved the budget of 17 million estate.
The number of foreign tourists to Tunisia again fell sharply in the first half of this year. This emerges from figures published Monday, a year after a terrorist 38 people had been shot dead in the North African country.
Two Tunisian citizens have been slain Monday and another wounded by a landmine which jihadists had posted a mountainous area near the Algerian border. The victims are two women, told the Defense Ministry.
Special Tunisian units on Wednesday on the northern edge of the capital Tunis, according to local media two slain terrorists and arrested between ten and twenty terrorists. The action is still ongoing. The units have stormed a house in the district Mnihla, about 10 kilometers from the center of Tunis.
Germany for the first time a group of rejected asylum seekers from Tunisians put on a plane to her home country. The tour is made possible by agreements made the country last month with the government in Tunis.
Germany is willing to pay for the return of rejected asylum seekers to North Africa. Often fail because countries such as Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria refuse to return. Berlin is now trying with these countries to agree on financial help, the Bild newspaper reported Thursday.
Tunisia has a curfew imposed in response to violent protests in the country. In several cities came to clashes between police and protesters demonstrating against the poor economic situation in the country.
Two rival governments in Libya on Tuesday in neighboring Tunisia formed together a government team. The intention is that they now work together, especially against the advancing jihadists in Libya which themselves a part of the Islamic State (IS) have been declared.
The US Embassy in Tunisia Americans in the country called on Sunday to avoid a large shopping center in the capital Tunis, as can be committed an attack.
Tunisian security forces late Sunday two suspected Islamic terrorists arrested. The two were arrested during a raid in the south of the country. Thereby include Kalashnikovs, a bomb belt, grenades, detonators and explosives to make a car bomb confiscated, reports the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior.
The attack on a military bus in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Tuesday held with 10 kilos of explosives. The perpetrator was carrying explosives either in a backpack or in a bomb belt. That the Tunisian interior minister said Wednesday.
An attack on a military bus in the Tunisian capital Tunis took Tuesday at least eleven lives. The van carried members of the presidential guard, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry know.
Two Tunisian soldiers were slain Monday in clashes with militants in a mountainous area near the border with Algeria . Four other soldiers were wounded , said an army spokesman .
