In accordance with what was mentioned on Saturday during a telephone interview between the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the Tunisian head of state, Kais Saied, a visit to the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin in Tunisia is imminent. It is expected to take place on Friday, November 6, 2020.
During this visit, Gérald Darmanin will meet the Tunisian Minister of the Interior, Taoufik Charfeddine with whom he will evoke, of course, the recent attack in Nice perpetrated by a Tunisian illegally entered in Italy and then in France.
Gérald Darmanin should first go to Malta, then to Tunisia and finally to Algeria, reports BFMTV, this Monday, November 2, adding that the French Minister of the Interior “will submit to his counterparts a list of nationals whom he wishes to expel towards these countries”.
Yesterday, the Elysée announced that Emmanuel Macron had asked Gérald Darmanin to go to Tunisia. “We have expected 16 people combined with radicalizations,” said the minister on BFMTV-RMC this Monday morning.
He also mentioned a trip to Russia “in the coming days” to talk about these questions. “I asked the prefects to put all foreigners in an irregular situation combined with radicalization in CRAs”, the administrative retention centers, added Darmanin. They are “a hundred,” he said.
On Saturday, during his telephone interview with Emmanuel Macron, Kais Saied also committed to facilitating the repatriation of several S of Tunisian origin, said the Parisian.
These would be 231 Tunisian nationals in an irregular situation and being the subject of several suspicions of radicalization, some of which are even suspected of belonging to extremist and terrorist groups.
“Saied has sent a message of solidarity with regard to victim families. And he is committed to France to facilitate the granting of consular leave. These documents are essential for forced distance, but countries of origin very often reluctant to grant them. Gérald Darmanin will therefore be responsible for setting up a more fluid process, ”explains Le Parisien.
