anger and exasperation in the western city of Tunisia


TUNIS-21 are the victims of clashes in the last 72 hours in Tunisia. Said the minister of communications, branded as "totally false" financial statements that talk about 40 or 50 dead.
Minister, Samir Labidi, made this announcement during a press conference in Tunis. The previous official toll was 18 dead. "All the other figures given by television and by the agencies were talking about 40 or 50 agencies (victims) are totally false."
And several witnesses reported clashes between residents and police in a suburb of Tunis. It 's the first time that the disturbances reach the Tunisian capital.

Meanwhile, today's funeral early this morning in Kassarine, Tunisia in the west to the border with Algeria, the scene of clashes throughout the day yesterday with a heavy death toll. It 'still uncertain how many of those who lost their lives in clashes with security forces: according to some sources, the dead would be 6 or 7, others speak of 12. The total budget of the last three days also came to 35-40 deaths. For most young people, say some residents of Kasserine, but also ensures a pregnant woman a boy and a man of 90 years, for someone choked by tear gas to other killed with a bullet to the head. In the funeral procession of the people accompanying her dead clutching trucks, a weeping woman descends from a taxi, crying tears of a ritual.
close friend explains that she lost her son in 20 years. People say to go to the hospital to observe closely the disaster yesterday at Kasserine. Announced a disaster from the beginning of the road leading toward the center, the first sign of a showroom of furniture, completely destroyed by the flames that people, yesterday, set it pushed exasperation, eyewitnesses. The first killings, according to the people who gather in groups in front of the remains of the furniture there had been during the night, the day the riots were the result of anger and despair. "You do not work - says a lawyer accompanying the funeral wearing his toga - and here we are nothing but respect for the law