An investigating judge with the judicial center for the fight against terrorism ordered, this Monday, April 21, 2025, the placement in custody of the lawyer and former administrative judge Ahmed Souab.
The spokesperson for the judicial center to fight terrorism confirmed to the TAP agency that the general prosecutor’s office at the Tunis Court of Appeal ordered the opening of a judicial information against Ahmed Souab with the pole, for a series of accusations related to terrorism as well as related common law crimes.
These accusations include in particular: the threat of committing terrorist acts in order to force a person to act or to refrain from it, endangering a person benefiting from protection, and threats punishable by criminal sanctions.
According to the spokesperson, this investigation was triggered after the broadcast of a video showing lawyer Ahmed Souab in front of the lawyer’s house on April 19, 2025. In this sequence, he would have declared, in the Tunisian dialect: “The knives are not for the prisoners, the knives are for the judge of the Chamber who will rule on several files”, while mimicking a gesture neck.
She specified that this act was noted by the national unity to combat terrorist crimes, in a report transmitted by the prosecution of the anti -terrorist judicial center to the Attorney General, taking into account the status of lawyer for the person concerned. The judicial information was opened due to the severity of the facts, after having followed the legal procedures required for a lawyer.
The lawyer and former administrative judge was placed in police custody for a period of 48 hours. He was transferred to the headquarters of the Central Investigation Unit in terrorist crimes in Bouchoucha, in Tunis.
His arrest took place in the morning on Monday April 21, 2025, at his home, where a dozen police officers arrested.
