Burned car tires, angry slogans: Hundreds demonstrated today after the deaths of three students from the collapse of a wall in their school in the central part of the country, one of the French News Agency (AFP) reported.
Yesterday, part of a wall collapsed at the Lyceum of Fool’s High School, a city at Sidi Buzid, while a group of students were near. The three victims are 18 and 19 years old, according to Moz Trouz, a Civil Protection spokesman.
One student was buried yesterday and two more today.
The case caused indignation in the country.
Today, residents of this degraded city gathered in front of a gendarmerie station demanding that “justice” be attributed.
“We won’t be stuck,” he shouted at the crowd in front of a group of police officers trying to calm them down.
Other protesters burned car tires just a few meters from the police station.
“We have no job, no protection, nothing at all! The fuel is marginalized, “said one resident, according to a video released on social media.
The UGTT Union has announced today strikes in schools “as a sign of mourning” and to protest “the failure of the authorities to find real and serious solutions to save the public school”.
President Kais Sayed “gave instructions for anyone who does not fulfill his / her duties to be held accountable,” according to a press release in the presidency.
🇹🇳: protests to, against the background of death of three students in the collapse of the wall of a high school
– Anadolu français (@Aa_French)
