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| Tunisia Salafist Killed In Clashes With Police |
| 2013-04-13 |
| [AlAhram] Salafist Moslem is killed in Friday attack on cop shoppe in Tunisia's northeast, according to media and interior ministry Tunisian police potted a Salafist Moslem after a group of assailants attacked a cop shoppe in the northeastern town of Hergla, the interior ministry and media reports said on Friday. During the incident on Thursday night, police fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse a group of Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... seeking to free one of their number being held there, private radio station Mosaique FM reported. The 23-year-old was mortally maimed in the festivities, which continued into Friday morning, and four others were maimed. The interior ministry said on its official Facebook page that 150 radical Islamists tried to break in to the cop shoppe, throwing rocks at security forces. "To start, the police gave them a verbal warning, before firing tear gas to disperse them. The group persisted, so security forces were ordered to use live rounds, killing one attacker and wounding four others," the statement said. Since the revolution that toppled the regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, radical Islamists have launched several attacks on cop shoppes across Tunisia. Tunisia is facing a growing number of Islamist groups that authorities say are responsible for incidents such as the attack on the US embassy in Tunis in September and opposition politician Chokri Belaid's liquidation in February. |
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