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CHRONIC. The fate of sub-Saharans, therefore blacks, after the words of President Kaïs Saïed, is an insult to human rights in all their expressions.
By Tierno Monenembo*
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Que will say Kaïs Saïed who castigates “the hordes of blacks who have come from the South to spread delinquency in Tunisia and demolish its Arab-Muslim identity” when the most extreme racists in Europe stigmatize the Tunisians in the same way by accusing them of invading the Old Continent “to eat its children’s bread, rape its women, plant bombs in its dance halls and on its beaches, replace the bikini with the chador and the Civil Code with Sharia”? Immigration has a really good back. It has become the ideal excuse for xenophobes of all persuasions to give free rein to their devastating hatred. She is the smokescreen behind which the repressed racists pour out their gall, even if it means waking up old demons and, to parody Brel, rekindling the old ones…