Gérald Darmanin received in Tunis to talk about radicalization and expulsions
Sky world news/Gérald Darmanin received in Tunis to talk about radicalization and expulsions French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin met his Tunisian counterpart Taoufik Charfeddine on 6 November in Tunis.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin met his Tunisian counterpart Taoufik Charfeddine on 6 November in Tunis.
While Paris wishes to expel twenty Tunisians suspected of being radicalized, the Tunisian government said it was ready to welcome them under conditions, Friday, during a meeting in Tunis between the French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and his counterpart Taoufik Charfeddine. Tunisia is "ready to receive any Tunisian," Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine told reporters after an interview with his French counterpart.
"But this must be done under the conditions and regulations" provided for by international law and "preserving the dignity of the Tunisian", he added.
Gérald Darmanin was to present during his visit a list of Tunisian nationals in an irregular situation in France and suspected of being radicalized, an approach he intends to repeat on Sunday in Algeria, according to his entourage.
Long planned, Gérald Darmanin's visit took a new turn with the attack which left three people dead at the basilica of Nice (south-eastern France) at the end of October.
The alleged perpetrator, Brahim Aouissaoui, seriously injured during his arrest, is a 21-year-old Tunisian who recently arrived in Europe.
It is difficult to know if Brahim Aouissaoui became radicalized in Tunisia or after his arrival in Europe at the end of September, and if the operation was planned before his departure.
Gérald Darmanin, who began his tour of Italy on Friday morning, stressed from Rome that the fight "against terrorism is the fight we are waging against an ideology", described as "Islamist".
He called for "a cultural fight against this ideology, its finance, its pharmacies and its support abroad".
"In the last 30 terrorists who hit French soil, 22 were French, only eight were foreign", he stressed, estimating that the "danger" was "also and obviously above all endogenous".
