How could Jeune Afrique magazine avoid financial bankruptcy? A question to which its founder Béchir Ben Yahmed has already answered. But what we did not know were the underside of this rescue that the Duck chained and relayed by Le Figaro has just revealed.
According to the satirical weekly, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali would have played a big role in this rescue and would have enabled the magazine to get up. How is it possible? As early as 1997, while Jeune Afrique crossed a serious crisis, the former Tunisian president would have forced dozens of Tunisian companies to acquire 10,500 actions from Jeune Afrique, in financial difficulty. A way to bail out the magazine’s boxes!
The chained duck, proof and testimonies in support, argues that in total, 41 business leaders were cornered to buy actions from Jeune Afrique, and that many of them wanted to get rid of it a few years older.
This order of Ben Ali, obviously applied to the letter, was supervised by two relatives of the fallen president, as Ridha Kéfi has already revealed in Kapitalis, denouncing the privileged relationship and oh so based on the “juicy contracts of Béchir Ben Yahmed and Abdelwaheb Abdallah, as well as Osama Romdhani ex-DG of ATCE” (“Tunisia. Ali, Ben Yahmed and us ”).
Former editor -in -chief delegate of Jeune Afrique, Ridha Kéfi does not hesitate to denounce “BBY and his family, who continue to perish, earing up on the diets that follow one another in Tunisia and in other African countries, while playing, after each revolution or dismissal, with frightened virgins”.
For his part, Béchir Ben Yahmed, founding boss of the weekly, admitted to the duck chained having made tight contacts with the old Tunisian regime for capital increase. However, to defend himself, he insists on the rather particular and not very convenient aspect of the mechanisms put in place by the dictatorial regimes, which control everything. According to him, it was indeed difficult to approach private shareholders directly by short-circuiting the power in place.
