Eight years ago, in the middle of a day when the republic was supposed to celebrate its anniversary, 14 bullets penetrated the body of the opposition leader and founding deputy, Mohamed Brahmi, a few months after the assassination of another opposition leader Chokri Belaid, and then Tunisia entered a new turning point after the overthrow of the troika government.
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A member of the Defense Committee for the Martyrs Belaid and Brahmi, Mr. Yassine Azza, told JDD Tunisie today, Sunday, July 25, 2021, that part of the judicial system was implicated in the assassination and the crime later, by attempting to conceal and obliterate the crime through the former public prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in Tunis, Bechir Akrmi . Azza added that all the complaints lodged by the Defense Authority against Ennahda and its secret service are still in place, noting that the lawyers are waiting to refer Bechir Akrmi to a judicial investigation to provide all the support to the Public Prosecution .
“Abu Adnan”
One of the most prominent symbols of the Nasserite nationalist movement in Tunisia, Brahmi was born on May 15, 1955 in the city of El-Hachana in Sidi Bouzid, from a generation that dreamed of “freedom, unity and socialism.” Since entering the university, he has been involved in political work through the “Universal Progressive Arab Students,” the student arm of the Nasserist movement in Tunisia. In conjunction with the intensification of the Bourguiba regime, whose stick extended to all political currents, Al-Baramhi was imprisoned and prevented from joining the resistance in Palestine on two occasions.
Lawyer Iman Gazara said that the defense lawyers for the defendants in the case appealed what was known as the secret service case, which was included in the second part of the file published in the investigation, which decided on May 28, 2020, to refer Mohammad Skkari, head of the security apparatus of Ansar al-Sharia, and Amer al-Balazi, who admitted to hiding it. For the two pistols used in the assassination of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, on the accusation of participating in the killing. As for Mustafa Khedher, he was charged with refraining from providing important information related to the movements, phone numbers and relations of Abu Bakr al-Hakim, accused of the Brahmi assassination.
