On September 2, 2025, a Tunisian national was Founded by the police in Marseille After injuring five people with stabbing people. If the legitimacy of the intervention is recognized by the Marseille prosecutor, It is now French media reactions that dominate the treatment of the case.
The official Tunisian reaction
THE Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs qualified the act of “Unjustified murder”summoning the acting manager of the French Embassy in Tunis and asking for a Quick and rigorous investigation. This approach surprised many French observers.
Read:: Marseille affair: Tunis increases diplomatic tone against Paris
None French official declaration has not been published, leaving a empty diplomatic And strengthen media attention to the case.
Europe 1: a parallel with Algeria
In the show Christine Kelly and youjournalist Gabrielle Cluzel commented on the Tunisian reaction as resembling that of Algeriahighlighting a model of public protest of France: (See the video)
“We have the impression that there is a form of contagion, habit in love with humiliating France (…) The journey of this individual (…) leads us to think that Tunisia, in the same state of mind as Algeria, is properly amazing and above all very worrying. »»
Europe 1 insists on the Diplomatic and symbolic dimensionfar beyond Marseille.
CNEWS: Algerianization and debates on visas
On Cnewsmedia treatment has been more politicized:
- Éric Tegnarjournalist and far -right political activist, spoke of the possibility of Restress visas for Tunisians and Algerians.
- Éric Revelle commented on these words, nursingand specifying that the criticism only aims at Tunisian intervention, not all Tunisians in France:
“The statement is scandalous, I hope. I go so far as to question diplomatic relations with Tunisians. (…) I also think of Tunisians who, in the 1960s and 70s, worked at Renault and elsewhere, devoted their whole life, do not put them in the same basket. »»
- Georges FenechFrench magistrate and politician born in Sousse (Tunisia), added: (See the video)
“There is an” algerianization “of Tunisia, it is no longer a model of democracy”.
These interventions show how French media transform a local incident into diplomatic and political debateby insisting on the symbolic dimension and on the implications on the visas.
