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By announcing the probable dissolution of the Superior Council of the Judiciary on the night of Saturday to Sunday, the Tunisian head of state Kaïs Saïed took hostage the traditional gathering of the left on February 6, in tribute to the assassination in 2013 of Chokri Belaid.
Nine years that each February 6, in the rain or under the sun like this Sunday, Houssem Hammi goes out in the streets of Tunis to pay homage to Chokri Belaïd, assassinated, probably by jihadists, in 2013. His collective, Soumoud (“Resistance “), made posters of the portrait of the former leader of the left with his mustache and his mole. Two distinctive signs that have become iconic in the fight against Islamism, bringing together well beyond his Marxist-Pan-Arab family. “Ennahdha [parti islamiste au pouvoir au sein de différentes coalitions depuis 2011, ndlr] is at the root of all the evils of post-revolution Tunisia: terrorism, political assassinations and indoctrination of young people, lists Houssem Hammi. There are very strong presumptions of the party’s involvement in the assassination of Chokri Belaïd and Mohamed Brahmi [figure du nationalisme arabe tué en juillet 2013].”
As if to support his pros…