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| One person died and 18 others were injured including two leading figures from Tunisia’s Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party in a fire at its headquarters | |
| 2021-12-11 | |
Ennahdha said on Facebook that one of its "activists," a former receptionist born in 1970, had died in the blaze. The interior ministry said his "charred" body had been found in the building. Tunisian media cited judiciary sources as saying the person had "set himself ablaze on the ground floor" of the building. Former prime minister and Ennahdha Vice President Ali Laaryadh was hospitalized after jumping from the second floor of the building to escape the flames, as was advisory board head Abdelkarim Harouni, party members said. The party’s president Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of Tunisia’s suspended parliament, was not in the building at the time, party official Mondher Lounisi said. Ennahdha, a banned opposition movement under dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has been the largest force in Tunisia’s parliament since shortly after the country’s 2011 revolution. It played a central role in national politics until President Kais Saied sacked the government, suspended the assembly and seized a string of powers on July 25. The blaze came three days after the party warned it was facing an orchestrated "defamation" campaign aimed at shutting it out of national politics. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Live eggnog and candles at the Christmas party? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-12-11 19:06 |
| #1 No mention that Ennahdha is an arm of the Muslim Brothrhood. |
| Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 2021-12-11 07:50 |