Tunisia-Corruption: Mechichi’s proposed health minister on I Watch’s radar

Introduced for the post of Minister of Health, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse , the NGO I Watch called on the prime minister, Hichem Mechichi to reverse this assignment based on a corruption case.

“Dr Hedi Khairi could be called to appear before the investigating judge, given that he is suspected of counterfeiting a file associated to the premeditated murder case in which lawyer Jamel Hajji was involved », We say.

The organization points out the existence of conflicts of interest and of a network of relationships led by brothers Hedi Kairi and Jamel Hajji, the lawyer indicted of the premeditated murder of a 20-year-old citizen, whose circumstances date back to the 17th. July 2019 ″.

In a press release published on the evening of Wednesday, January 20, 2021, I Watch views that the right of the young victim is on the verge of being lost because the nominee for the post of Minister of Health is abusing his network in legal circles and health in order to secure the impunity of his brother.

The NGO indicated that the Tunis Court of Cassation had withdrawn this case to Judge Monia Safi and forward it back to the Medenine court on the basis of the suspicions surrounding the case and the part that Hedi Kairi had took in the release of his brother.

And to add that the victim’s family challenges the reliability of the forensic report and charges all those responsible for the case of having covered up the ballistic report, of which the victim’s lawyer has still not received a copy. A year and a half after the incident.

It should be noted that the investigating judge of the Sousse court of first instance concluded last August to discharge the lawyer Jamel Hajji, accused in the murder’s case of a young man who broke into his home in the Sahloul region.e contextual thesaurus suggestions.

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