Migrants are thrown from balconies and attacked with swords in Tunis, injuring up to 40, including women and children, in a retaliatory attack after a local was stabbed to death.
- The attack on African migrants occurred in Sfax, Tunisia, on Tuesday night.
- It comes after locals vowed to ‘avenge’ the death of a man allegedly killed by immigrants
Dozens of African migrants have been injured after being thrown from balconies and attacked with ‘swords’ in Tunisia, a doctor has said.
Doctor Lazhar Neji said that between 30 and 40 migrants, including women and children, were injured after the ‘inhumane’ and ‘bloody’ attack in Sfax, Tunisia, on Tuesday.
It comes after residents vowed to ‘avenge’ the death of a 41-year-old Tunisian man at his funeral after he was stabbed to death on Monday during an altercation with three suspected Cameroonian migrants.
During the protests, hundreds of Tunisians gathered in the streets and blocked streets burning tires while demanding the eviction of all illegal immigrants, according to AFP.
And a video shared on social media showed police chasing dozens of immigrants from their homes to the cheers of city residents, before loading them into police cars.
It comes after residents vowed to ‘avenge’ the death of a 41-year-old Tunisian man at his funeral (pictured) after he was stabbed to death on Monday during an altercation with three suspected Cameroonian migrants.
On the Facebook page of the non-governmental group Sayeb Trottoir, doctor Lazhar Neji, who works in a hospital emergency room, condemned the “inhuman and bloody night that makes you tremble.”
He said the hospital had received between 30 and 40 wounded migrants, including women and children, saying “some were thrown from terraces, others attacked with swords.”
Other images showed migrants lying on the ground, with their hands on their heads, surrounded by residents armed with sticks who waited for the police to arrive to turn them in.
Police then rounded up some migrants and deported them more than 200 miles from the Libyan border, according to a local human rights group.
Meanwhile, others were taken to the site of the Sfax International Fair, where they would be transferred to another location, according to Romdane Ben Amor, director of the Economic and Social Rights Forum.
Police then rounded up some migrants and deported them more than 200 miles from the Libyan border, according to a local human rights group.
Meanwhile, others were taken to the site of the Sfax International Fair, where they would be transferred to another location.
Sfax, the North African country’s second-largest city, is a departure point for many migrants hoping to reach EU member Italy by sea, usually to the island of Lampedusa, some 80 miles away.
Tunisia has seen a rise in racially motivated attacks following comments by President Kais Saied in February accusing ‘hordes’ of illegal immigrants of generating violence and alleging a ‘criminal plot’ to change the country’s demographic makeup.
With a population of 12 million, Tunisia is home to some 21,000 immigrants from other parts of Africa, representing just 0.2 percent of the population.
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