The French Salafist accused of killing Tunisian politician

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France 24:

7/29/13

 

The main suspect in last week's killing of Tunisian politician Mohamed Brahmi is a well-known figure in French intelligence circles. Boubakeur Hakim (pictured), a Frenchman of Tunisian origin, has come a long way on the jihadist trail.

 

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A day after Thursdays shocking assassination of prominent Tunisian leftist politician Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou named Hakim as the main suspect in the killing.

 

Hakim is well known in French and North African intelligence circles. Tunisian authorities say the Franco-Tunisian Salafist belongs to the 14-person cell allegedly responsible for the February murder of another respected leftist Tunisian politician, Chokri Belaid. According to Tunisian officials, most members of the 14-person cell belong to the local hardline Islamist group, Ansar al-Sharia.

 

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Tunisia on the Brink

Michael J Totten

29 July 2013

 

The Arab Spring began in Tunisia, and its lurching toward the brink again just weeks after the Egyptian army overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood government.

 

Last week an assassin took out left-wing opposition leader Mohammed Brahmi with a 9mm pistol. Ballistics reports indicate the killer used the exact same weapon to murder another opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, last winter. And this week Al Qaeda-linked terrorists dug in on Mount Chambi killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers.

 

 

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Thousands of furious demonstrators converged on parliament this week, yelling, the people want the fall of the assassins. Police officers repelled them with tear gas. Prime Minister Ali Larayedh refuses to step down and is blasting the demonstrators as anarchists.

 

 

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