The Head of Italian government Silvio Berlusconi will be in Tunis Monday to meet his counterpart Beji Caïd Essebsi, reported the Reuters agency.
Yesterday, Thursday, Berlusconi spoke by telephone with the Tunisian Prime Minister, but nothing filtered on the nature of the discussion or on the reasons for this visit, specifies the same source.
For many observers, the arrival of Berlusconi in Tunisia would be linked to the situation deemed unbearable in Lampedusa where nearly 6,000 immigrants coexist with 5,000 inhabitants.
Italy believes that the vast majority of these immigrants come from Tunisia.
Berlusconi in good “Cavalieri” during a lightning visit on Wednesday at Lampedusa promised an evacuation of the thousands of migrants within 60 hours.
On Thursday, he criticized the Tunisian government by accusing him of not respecting his promise to contain the influx of immigrants.
However, for wise observers, Berlusconi would try to flee the Italian court on Monday, “for accusations of fraud in the acquisition of television rights by his media media empire”, where he has not set foot for eight years.
