1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,360 Nawaat 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 TBORBA: KHOMSSI ALIFRINIS FAMILY REJECTS THE VERSION OF THE MINISTER OF INTERIORS 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,040 Throw it back! 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Poverty is devouring the people. 5 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,200 You go out to buy sugar, oil, and you find nothing. 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,600 Our money is not enough to buy oil. 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,800 And the jobs, where are the jobs? You see how the youth has nothing to do! 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,000 All those reasons and we should not be protesting? 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,400 It was around 7:40pm, 7:45pm. 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,600 As it had become quieter they came to us. 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,800 We fleed like the others. 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,640 They went by car and they overran him. 13 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,800 It was not a normal police car, it was a police authority car. 14 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,880 I say it and I take full responsibility. 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,800 You know who I am where I teach. 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,360 I am ready to give my testimony. 17 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,040 But my son is healthy, 18 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,240 He knocks on a wall and destroys it. 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:27,480 He is not sick, I swear with my fingers that he is not sick. 20 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,160 My brother has no chronic desease he is not sick! 21 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,480 He has no neurological illness, he never slept in the hospital. 22 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,480 The overran him, and then threw teargas at him. 23 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,640 They said that he had a file in the hospital, 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,440 and that he is often in hospital. But he was never there! 25 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,640 I am the one who is sick. My brother was healthy, they murdered him! 26 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,840 I asked a police man, whether my brother is ok. 27 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,040 He told my that he just had problems breathing, 28 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,240 but he was already dead. 29 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,040 We wanted to know where he is, to visit him. 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,440 They said they didn't know either. 31 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:12,000 And the car overrran him twice. 32 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,280 After he died they brought him to the hospital. 33 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,360 They did not want to save him. 34 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,440 They trew teargas at him so that he could not be seen. 35 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,200 Only after the gas had dissolved they could see him. 36 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,400 He died. 37 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,074 They brought him to the hospital when he was already dead. 38 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,280 When I came to the hospital they said he was already dead when he came. 39 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,920 The hospital in Tborba has no intensive care unit to wake him up. 40 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,120 So what did they do? 41 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,320 They made a deal: the police and the Tborba hospital. 42 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,520 They wrote in his file that he was suffering from asthma and crazy. 43 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,720 Because they did not want that everybody noticed what happened 44 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:57,920 they wrote something else. 45 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,120 That the man had died of asthma. 46 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,320 There are rumors that he did not die in the hospital. 47 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,520 He died on the street. 48 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,720 There are videos where people say that a martyr is gods love. 49 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:12,920 At that point he was already dead. 50 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,120 The ambulance took him and he was already dead. 51 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,120 Khomssi worked as a metal worker for a man, 52 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,320 to be able to eat, to earn some money. 53 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,520 He sold vegetables in front of the school where i work. 54 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,720 Why? Because he was not allowed to work. 55 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,920 He did not have the possibility to have a real job. 56 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,120 Like all Tunesians he wanted to live with dignity. He wanted to have a dignified life. 57 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,320 Tborba is a region with 80.000 inhabitants. 58 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,520 Here there are no workplaces. There is no factory. 59 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,720 One can not forbid these people to demonstrate. 60 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,920 There is a reason fo it: Poverty and high prices. 61 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,120 The government started a war against the people. 62 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,320 The protests will go on until we reach our goal. 63 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,520 We want Youssef Echahid here. 64 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,720 With his ministers, who sit in their E-Class Mercedes 65 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,920 and get thousands - they already got their payrise. 66 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,120 They have to come here and talk with us 67 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,320 and see what the people in Tborba need. 68 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,520 At my brothers funeral they threw tear gas at us. 69 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,720 The people started weeping and couldn't breath anymore. 70 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,920 We left him alone and went home. 71 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,120 First he had a bad life, and when he died and they overran him, 72 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,320 they did not want us to call him a martyr. 73 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,520 He is a martyr for our dignity. He wanted to eat bread.