Ghannouchi and the Investigations of the Secret Brotherhood Apparatus… A gradual Fall
A new step for the Tunisian judiciary reveals the gradual fall of Brotherhood leader Rashid Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda movement and the dissolved parliament.
The new move towards the Brotherhood in Tunisia was launched with a travel ban against Ghannouchi, in addition to 34 other defendants, against the background of investigations into the file of the Brotherhood’s secret service.
The travel ban on Ghannouchi, which was announced yesterday, Friday, was considered by observers as proof of what the defense committee claimed for leftist politicians Chokri Belaid and the nationalist leader Mohamed Brahmi, who were assassinated in 2013, regarding the Brotherhood’s secret service and his involvement in the assassination.
Last January, the Minister of Justice, Laila Jaffal, ordered the reopening of an investigation, research and tracking of the file of the Brotherhood’s secret service, and a number of people for crimes related to state security, espionage and penetration of Tunisian state institutions. The decision follows a complaint lodged by the defense committee of politicians, the leftist leader Chokri Belaid, and the nationalist leader, Mohamed Brahmi, who were assassinated in 2013, accusing the Brotherhood of being involved in the operation.
country betrayal
Reda Al-Radawi, a member of the defense committee for politicians, the leftist leader Chokri Belaid, and the nationalist leader, Mohamed Brahmi, confirmed the existence of a secret apparatus for Ghannouchi, in addition to a secret financial apparatus, involved in money laundering and the deportations of Tunisian youths to Syria to join ISIS in cooperation with external parties.
In exclusive statements to “Al-Ain Al-Akhbar”, Al-Radawi believes that Ghannouchi’s journey of betraying the homeland and selling it began since his return to Tunisia 10 years ago, adding that the travel ban on Ghannouchi and 34 defendants is proof of the authenticity of the documents submitted by the Tunisian Judiciary Defense Authority.
The defense team of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi had previously confirmed the existence of documents revealing the involvement of Rashid Ghannouchi in espionage with foreign parties.
In a press conference last February, the commission indicated that there were also documents implicating Ghannouchi in the attack on Tunisian state security.
In 2018, Belaid and Brahmi’s defense team indicated the involvement of the Ennahda movement through a “secret organization” in the assassination of Tunisian opponents, and revealed documents it described as “dangerous”, saying that they were deposited in a “black room” at the Ministry of Interior.
On January 5, the Public Prosecution Office of Tunisia referred Ghannouchi and others to the criminal circuit, accusing them of committing electoral crimes and receiving funds of unknown origin.
Tunisian President Kais Saied had previously announced the dissolution of the Supreme Judicial Council, saying that it “serves certain parties far from the public interest.”
On February 6, 2013, Tunisia was shaken by the assassination of the leftist leader of the National Democratic Party, Chokri Belaid, who is known for his hostility to the Brotherhood and repeatedly described them as criminals, and this assassination is the first in the modern history of Tunisia.
Ghannouchi’s punishment
Since his youth, Ghannouchi, in order to perpetuate his terrorist ideas in Tunisian society and his attempts to dismantle the Tunisian state and burn security centers and tourist hotels, has faced life imprisonment, exile, and death sentences demanded by former President Habib Bourguiba in the eighties of the last century.
Ghannouchi left Tunisia on April 11, 1989, to Algeria, after the military court sentenced him during the rule of the late President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, along with other leaders, to life imprisonment on charges of “conspiracy” against the head of state, and then moved to Sudan, and then to the United Kingdom, where he was exiled to escape. from carrying out the death sentence.
From a death sentence and exile to the presidency of Parliament, the Brotherhood organization led by Ghannouchi continued its terrorism in Tunisia until he brought himself to the gallows after his involvement in terrorism and assassinations.
The charges that Ghannouchi faces, if proven, range between death and life imprisonment, according to Ziad Al Qasimi, a Tunisian law professor.
Al-Qasimi said in statements to “Al-Ain News” that according to the penal code, he is punished with imprisonment for the rest of his life and a fine of 200,000 dinars related to state security in addition to death sentences for forming a criminal concord with the intent of conspiring against internal state security against the background of rebellion against state laws.
He revealed that the charges against those concerned, including Ghannouchi, in the case of the secret service consisted of obtaining, by any means, a secret of the national defense, in addition to involvement in terrorism.
The secret device is there
In agreement with the above, Abdel Majid Al-Adwani, an activist and political analyst, believes that the travel ban on Ghannouchi is a confirmation that the secret apparatus of the Brotherhood, which worked to sabotage the institutions of the Tunisian state, does exist.
In statements to “Al-Ain News”, Al-Adwani demanded to expedite the completion of investigations and “organize public trials for the perpetrators and hold the accused accountable,” adding that the file includes overlapping (unnamed) regional parties complicit with the Brotherhood, and it is a complex file.
He stressed that Awal Ghaith is a drop and that Kais Saeed is working to dismantle the threads of the Brotherhood’s secret apparatus before the upcoming December 17 elections because he is working on an electoral law that prevents the participation of parties implicated in terrorist crimes and financial corruption cases, and thus the political scene will be purified from the clutches of the Brotherhood.
He pointed out that the case of the Brotherhood’s secret service opened investigations into it after the exceptional measures decided by Tunisian President Kais Saied on July 25, 2021, and the judicial authorities opened an investigation into this case last January.
