The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, brought together on Friday, September 26, at the Palais de Carthage on Friday, the main managers of internal security: Khaled Ennouri, Minister of the Interior; Sofiene Bessadok, Secretary of State responsible for National Security to the Ministry of the Interior; Mourad Saidan, Director General of National Security; and Hichem Gharbi, Managing Director and Commander of the National Guard.
During this meeting, According to a press release from the presidencyKaïs Saïed a insisted on the permanence of the fight against speculation and monopoly networks. “This is not a campaign limited in time,” he said, but “a Tunisian state policy intended to continue to preserve national and social security and guarantee the conditions of dignity of citizens”.
The head of state has resumed his liberation metaphorevoking “the Tunisian people who, by their unprecedented conscience, led a war of liberation on all fronts, with the determination of a fighter who will never lay down arms”.
Words already made on September 23
These statements echo those pronounced a few days earlier, on September 23, during a similar meeting with security officials. The president then stressed that the fight against speculation was not punctual but constituted a structural and sustainable orientation of the State.
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Recent arrests and convictions
The reiteration of this discourse is accompanied by concrete actions:
- On September 19, a vast operation conducted by the economic and financial research sub-department of the judicial police, in collaboration with the trade services, led to the arrest of more than twenty wholesalers and intermediaries In the wholesale markets of Bizerte, Sfax, Sousse, Bir El Kassaâs and Moknine.
- On September 25, the criminal chamber of the first instance court of Ben Arous sentenced Eleven speculators To sentences of two to seven years in prison, with fines of 50,000 to 100,000 dinars.
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