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2020-10-20 Africa North
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Tunisian MP who Justified France Beheading Faces Investigation
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See also here for the French side of the investigation.
Teacher Samuel Paty, who used the cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression, was murdered in the street outside his school on Friday afternoon, sparking outrage and countrywide rallies supporting freedom of expression in La Belle France.
Tunisian MP Rached Khiari, an independent aligned with the Islamist movement Karama
... in English Dignity Coalition, a political Salafist populist party which won 21 seats and 6% of the popular vote in 2019, making it the fourth largest party in the Tunisian parliament. A number of members of the coalition openly support the idea of jihad... which is part of the North African country's governing coalition, wrote on Facebook the next day:
"Insulting the prophet of God is the greatest of crimes and anyone who commits it, whether a state, a group or an individual, must accept the consequences."
His comments sparked a heated social media debate in Tunisia.
Mohsen Dali, a Tunis prosecutor, told AFP that a court had charged "a team specialized in terrorism with looking into the content of the post," although a full judicial enquiry has not yet been opened.
Khiari has said he is ready to give up his parliamentary immunity.
Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi voiced his condolences in a Saturday phone call with his French counterpart Jean Castex, stressing that Tunisia rejects "all forms of extremism and terrorism" and defends the right to "freedom of expression and belief."
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