Tunisia’s Brotherhood uses “Salvation Front” to escape from legal accountability
Tunisian authorities confirmed that they are moving forward on their way towards opening deferred terrorism and corruption files, which will end by arresting Brotherhood members, leaders involved in it, while their allies rushed to spread rumors and allegations about the campaign of arrests launched by the authorities against Brotherhood leaders involved in financial, administrative corruption crimes and conspiracy against the African country. In addition to the files of assassinations and deportation.
Those files, which detained many of Brotherhood leaders in Tunisian prisons, prompted the Salvation Front, which is leaded by Brotherhood organization, to launch a campaign to support those arrested in the case of conspiracy against state security.
Instead of trying to push legal arguments to acquit those involved, the Salvation Front used another way; protesting and demanding to release those arrested in the case of conspiracy against state security.
The head of the “Salvation Front”, Ahmed Najib al-Shabi, ignored the criminal charges against Ennahda Brotherhood movement leaders, calling for the detained to be considered political prisoners, in an attempt to make it political issue to save those who involved in crimes that could lead them to execution.
Tunisian political analyst Abd al-Majid al-Adwani said that the Salvation Front, which is the political front of the Brotherhood organization, is looking to stir up a crisis, noting that there are parties seeking to turn the files into media issues to gain popular sympathy and incite international public opinion, while the All the information’s confirm their involvement in the conspiracy against state security.
Al-Adwani said that the Salvation Front is trying to save the Brotherhood from accountability processes, noting that the front has made contacts with international human rights organizations, bullying of international human rights organizations, allowing them to interfere in Tunisian affairs, to release detainees who thought they will not be punished.
The Tunisian analyst explained, “After the bullying operations abroad, and failed protests, they resorted to open sit-ins, to show the world that its members are victims, but they are involved with conclusive evidence in the conspiracy case.”
Public trials
In turn, the spokesman for the July 25 Movement, Mahmoud bin Mabrouk, said that the recent arrests in the case of conspiracy against state security were in accordance with judicial orders, indicating that they were conducted after eavesdropping operations revealed the existence of a plot to overthrow President Kais Saied.
Bin Mabrouk called the Ministry of Justice to make the trials of many detainees public, transmitted by internal and external channels, “so that they are not considered political arrests aimed to arrest the political opponents of the President of the Republic.”
He pointed out that the case files “included serious charges and crimes against the Tunisian people, especially the file of “food terrorism,” describing the detainees and their defenders as “betrayers” he said.
A “ramified network” of parties in Tunisia tried, on January 27, to overthrow the government in the country by inflaming the social situation and creating chaos at night, taking advantage of some parties inside the presidential palace.
However, the Tunisian security and intelligence forces thwarted this plan by tracing their contacts and steps, so that it became clear that the political activist and the Brotherhood’s candidate for the government in 2019, Khayyam al-Turki, was the main part of it.
Brotherhood leaders met at Khayyam al-Turki house, the figure whom the organization unanimously agreed to succeed Kais Saied, accompanied by the businessman known as the “man of conspiracy,” Kamal al-Latif, diplomats and other businessmen, in the northern suburb of Sidi Bou Said.
Brotherhood leaders met at Khayyam al-Turki house, the figure whom the organization unanimously agreed to succeed Kais Saied, accompanied by the businessman known as the “man of conspiracy,” Kamal al-Latif, diplomats and other businessmen, in the northern suburb of Sidi Bou Said.
86 politicians, businessmen, media professionals and diplomats were implicated in this case, and phone calls were seized between its members and the presidential palace in Carthage in order to overthrow the regime.
It was proven that the accused were involved in relations with intelligence and foreign entities to overthrow the government, cancel the 2022 constitution, and maintain the Brotherhood’s constitution of 2014 with the appointment of a new government.
