By Hatem Bourialmardi May 12, the French daily Liberation devoted its wide angle to hiking in Tunisia with a two -page report, signed Elodie Auffray with photos of Nicolas Fauqué. Entitled “Hiking: Tunisia rises and walks”, the article reports on two hikes that the journalist accompanied to Testour and El Oueslatia, respectively on Sunday, March 15 and Sunday, April 4.
To give back to Caesar what belongs to him, we will qualify the report of excellent. Dozens of people mentioned, a reflection on the hiking phenomenon in Tunisia, focus on associations in this area and a naked portrait of a forest guard.
Only, we cannot understand why the journalist, disputed for the devastating title of her first article after the drama of the Bardo, sprinkle her work with allusions to “the jihadist threat”. While hikers are walking in Testour, Elodie Auffray transports himself in mind to … Chaambi “which conceals among the most beautiful places to hike” but is “the scene of an asymmetrical struggle between jihadists and security forces”.
Libé’s correspondent concludes that you have to deal with hikers, “the Chaambi mountains, the heart of the jihadist maquis being blacklist”. One wonders that Mount Chaambi comes to Tesour! For the Tunisian reader, it goes without saying but for a French reader, the door is open to all confusion.
The article is dotted with this type of allusions. For example, while hikers are at the top of the Djebel Ouesletia, the journalist underlines that this “locality is also affected by terrorism: five of her young people left to make jihad in Libya, another in Syria”.
Is it perfidy? Is it rather in bad faith that instills pernicious allusions and small insidious touches in an article all in all banal?
Could it be rather a question of editorial line? No one can say …
The fact is that, however, the article ends with a positive quote from one of the hikers, Brahim, who says: “Terrorists are a noisy minority, they feed our desire to move forward. A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest ”.
At least there was no Parthian arrow! Nor maquisards on the hikers’ journey!
