He called for the general strike of the local union (union), demanding the opening of an investigation into the search for missing persons and the method of burial.
On the night between September 20 and 21, a migrant boat carrying 18 Tunisians went missing and two sailors recovered two bodies. The authorities also learned that there were four bodies that had previously been recovered and were mistakenly buried in a cemetery for migrants, according to the “Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights,” an organization that monitors the migration file. .
Thousands of residents of the city, including the families of the missing, gathered and organized a march in the main street of the city, calling on the authorities to intensify the search for the missing and denouncing previous burials of bodies in a cemetery for migrants, which later turned out to belong to some of the missing Tunisians.
Zarzis includes a cemetery in which the bodies of migrants, most of whom are of African nationalities, are buried.
Government institutions and stores in the country were also closed, and health services were limited to emergency.
Some of the demonstrators raised pictures of their missing children and banners reading “state crime” and “We demand the truth.”
And on Monday, President Kais Saied asked Justice Minister Laila Jaffal to open a forensic investigation into the immigration file, “so that Tunisians know the whole truth, and that those behind these tragedies bear the consequences of their negligence and negligence.”
Tunisian authorities are finding it difficult to intercept or rescue migrants due to lack of equipment.
With the improvement of weather conditions in Tunisia, the pace of irregular migration attempts from the Tunisian and Libyan coasts towards Italy increases, sometimes ending in drownings.
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