After months of sit-ins by Sub-Saharan Africans, Justice is cracking down: Arrest warrents are falling, by the dozens

It had to happen eventually, inevitably. The public prosecutor of the Court of First Instance of Tunis said its word this Friday, May 3 after months of paralysis: more than 80 arrest warrants were dropped this morning on the sub-Saharans who were camping at Berges of Lac (Tunis), in front of the headquarters of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). They were picked up by the police…

They will appear before the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of Tunis to respond to their crimes and violations, reports Mosaïque FM.

Let us recall that the sub-Saharan Africans have been stubbornly declining for months to dismantle their tents, a sit-in whose main demand was their resettlement in a neighbouring country, which is obviously on the order of the impossible given the tensions in Algeria and the security jeopardy in Libya, which already has its share of problems.

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