The Tunisian authorities continue to dismantle temporary camps which house thousands of irregular migrants in the governorate of Sfax, southeast of the country, and expel them, after having sought to cross Italy of the Tunisian coast.
Tunisia began last week to dismantle temporary random camps in the regions of Al -Amra and Jabaniana, which includes around 7,000 immigrants, most of sub -Saharan Africa, and have started to force some of them by force, according to human rights organizations.
A spokesperson for the Tunisian National Guard, Hossam El -Din Al -jabbli, confirmed to Reuters that the expulsion of dozens of irregular migrants from sub -Saharan Africa, with the dismantling of random camps in the Al -amra and Jabaniane regions of the Governor of Sfax.
Al -jabli explained that certain irregular migrants “involved in various crimes” are “expelled by force to their country”, without clarifying the nature of these crimes or additional details concerning the legal procedures followed and stressed that the authorities also sought to expel thousands of others voluntarily.
For years, thousands of irregular migrants have lived in olive forest camps in the cities of Al -amra and Jabanana in the governorate of Sfax in miserable conditions, after having been able to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian Island near Lampedusa, and the Tunisian authorities prevented them from reaching the boats of the Mediterranean.
The migrant crisis is a very sensitive issue in Tunisia, which raises a lot of internal controversy and human rights criticism. Tunisia considers that geography has charged exorbitant prices for the presence of tens of thousands of irregular migrants on its territory, at a time when Europe wants to make Tunisia and North African countries a wall of rejecting them.
The documentary “The spell of the transit” displays the tragedy of irregular migrants between the two banks of the Mediterranean, where their dreams or their illusions pushed them from the great scope of sub-Saharan Africa to the north, they therefore became a ball of fire that the two banks have chosen.