Tunisian interior ministry: “There are threats to president’s life”
The ministry said both internal and external elements were involved in plans targeting the president.
Tunisia’s interior ministry said on Friday it had information about serious threats to the life of the president and that it had foiled what it called a separate attack near a synagogue, adding to concerns over a mounting political crisis.
The ministry said both internal and external elements were involved in plans targeting the president. Spokesperson Fadhila Khelifi said in a news conference that “the goal was to undermine Tunisian public security”.
“The goal was to undermine Tunisian public security.”
Fadhila Khelifi
However, while critics of the president say his moves have raised concerns over rights and freedoms won in the 2011 revolution that brought democracy, there has been no widespread crackdown on the opposition or wave of arrests.
Saied says his moves are legal and were needed to save Tunisia from years of political paralysis and economic stagnation.
In what the ministry said was a separate incident, an attacker was arrested after injuring two police while targeting a security point outside a Tunis synagogue overnight, a security official said.
