Nawaat
TBORBA: KHOMSSI ALIFRINIS FAMILY REJECTS THE VERSION OF THE MINISTER OF INTERIORS
Throw it back!
Poverty is devouring the people.
You go out to buy sugar, oil, and you find nothing.
Our money is not enough to buy oil.
And the jobs, where are the jobs? You see how the youth has nothing to do!
All those reasons and we should not be protesting?
It was around 7:40pm, 7:45pm.
As it had become quieter they came to us.
We fleed like the others.
They went by car and they overran him.
It was not a normal police car, it was a police authority car.
I say it and I take full responsibility.
You know who I am where I teach.
I am ready to give my testimony.
But my son is healthy,
He knocks on a wall and destroys it.
He is not sick, I swear with my fingers that he is not sick.
My brother has no chronic desease he is not sick!
He has no neurological illness, he never slept in the hospital.
The overran him, and then threw teargas at him.
They said that he had a file in the hospital,
and that he is often in hospital. But he was never there!
I am the one who is sick. My brother was healthy, they murdered him!
I asked a police man, whether my brother is ok.
He told my that he just had problems breathing,
but he was already dead.
We wanted to know where he is, to visit him.
They said they didn't know either.
And the car overrran him twice.
After he died they brought him to the hospital.
They did not want to save him.
They trew teargas at him so that he could not be seen.
Only after the gas had dissolved they could see him.
He died.
They brought him to the hospital when he was already dead.
When I came to the hospital they said he was already dead when he came.
The hospital in Tborba has no intensive care unit to wake him up.
So what did they do?
They made a deal: the police and the Tborba hospital.
They wrote in his file that he was suffering from asthma and crazy.
Because they did not want that everybody noticed what happened
they wrote something else.
That the man had died of asthma.
There are rumors that he did not die in the hospital.
He died on the street.
There are videos where people say that a martyr is gods love.
At that point he was already dead.
The ambulance took him and he was already dead.
Khomssi worked as a metal worker for a man,
to be able to eat, to earn some money.
He sold vegetables in front of the school where i work.
Why? Because he was not allowed to work.
He did not have the possibility to have a real job.
Like all Tunesians he wanted to live with dignity. He wanted to have a dignified life.
Tborba is a region with 80.000 inhabitants.
Here there are no workplaces. There is no factory.
One can not forbid these people to demonstrate.
There is a reason fo it: Poverty and high prices.
The government started a war against the people.
The protests will go on until we reach our goal.
We want Youssef Echahid here.
With his ministers, who sit in their E-Class Mercedes
and get thousands - they already got their payrise.
They have to come here and talk with us
and see what the people in Tborba need.
At my brothers funeral they threw tear gas at us.
The people started weeping and couldn't breath anymore.
We left him alone and went home.
First he had a bad life, and when he died and they overran him,
they did not want us to call him a martyr.
He is a martyr for our dignity. He wanted to eat bread.