The Public Prosecutor in Tunis reacted Sunday against a Tunisian parliamentarian who praised the crime of slaughtering a French teacher in the Conflans-Saint-Honorine district, near the French capital, Paris, on charges of committing an act criminalized by Tunisian law.
An independent MP, Rashid Al-Khayari, wrote on his social media accounts on Saturday that “Insulting the Messenger of God is the greatest crime, and whoever commits it bears its consequences and outcomes, whether it is a state, group or inpidual."
In this regard, the Deputy Prosecutor of the Court of First Instance in Tunis, Mohsen El-Dali, confirmed that the Public Prosecutor at the Judicial Pole to Combat Terrorism found on Saturday a post published on social media and attributed to MP Rashid El-Khayari, and began to conduct the necessary investigation onto the matter.
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In a statement to the "Tunisia Africa" news agency, Dali said that this post "Maybe legally adapted as a terrorist crime, applying the Tunisian anti-terrorism law, as it may constitute glorification and praise of that terrorist act."
It is noteworthy that Tunisia's anti-terrorism law criminalizes justifying or glorifying terrorism, as it states in its chapter 31 that “He is considered to have committed a terrorist crime and shall be punished with imprisonment from one to five years and a fine from 5,000 to 10,000 dinars (from about $2000 to $4000) whosever publicly and explicitly praise or glorify a terrorist crime or its perpetrators inside and outside the Republic of Tunisia.”
Khayari’s post sparked controversy in Tunisia and was considered a justification for terrorism and a crime punishable by law, amid calls for the arrest of the Tunisian MP.
In this context, the National Observatory for the Defense of State Civilization considered, in a statement, that the position of the deputy, in which he justified the heinous crime, "is a glorification of terrorism, and a crime punishable by Tunisian law."
On his part, MP Ziad Al-Ghanai from the Democratic Current Party said, on his Facebook page, that “The comments of one of the MPs on the cowardly terrorist incident in France, and the previous inciting statements and accusations of hostility to religion in a number of sessions, confirm with regret that Al-Qaeda is represented in the Parliament.”
He noted that “The solution lies in kicking them out and avoiding any interaction with the advocates of violence and the protectors of terrorism.”
It is noteworthy that the horrific crime that rocked the Sainte Honorine Conflans zone, fifty kilometers northwest of Paris, was carried out by a young man of Chechen origin born in Moscow at the age of 18 years, who pounced on the teacher and slaughtered him, according to what a judicial source said.
Five more people were arrested as part of the investigation, bringing the total number of detainees to 9.
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