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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. While, contrary to economic realities, part of public opinion is turning away from the EU, an agreement could lessen the economic crisis.
By Benoit Delmas
© YASSINE GAIDI / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP
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“Du tear gas in the coup, France collaborates”, could we read Saturday, avenue Bourguiba, center of Tunis. Another sign held up by demonstrators, a chubby postage stamp, stormed with references, claiming that “from the batons to the coup, the Enlightenment is collaborating”. Understanding them requires a bit of memory, when Paris supported Ben Ali by trying to renew its stock of tear gas (1) in the midst of the revolution (2011).
These messages for Sunday processions, perfectly printed on large cards brandished in front of the demonstration, were aimed at the French media. The two slogans smelled like the signature of a Franco-Tunisian communications agency. A professional job like the Islamist party Ennahdha knows how to do. A little too professional to seem spontaneous, coming from…
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