Authorities in France detained the daughter of the deposed Tunisian President Zína Ábidín Bin Ali. This happened at the request of the Tunisian party, AFP reported on Tuesday. She added that Halíí bin Alíová was detained at Charla de Gaulla Airport, where she wanted to board the plane directed to Dubaiwrites TASR.
Bin Alíová is to come to the prosecutor’s office in Paris on Wednesdayto be aware of the request for preliminary detention issued by the Tunisian authorities. Subsequently, it will be placed either in the custody or will be supervised by the court, the prosecutor’s office added. The reason for the Tunisian request for the detention of bin Alíová has not yet been published.
The zin of bin Ali was the first leader of the countries of the Arab world, which in 2011 was overthrown by the wave of uprising during the Arab Spring. He has ruled Tunisia since 1987, and some political scientists perceived him as a counterweight to Islamist extremism, but faced criticism for the suppression of the opposition and the unwillingness to introduce democratic reforms.
After the protests of the Arab Spring Bin Ali, he went to Saudi Arabia, where he died at the age of 83 in 2019. In his homeland he was sentenced to life imprisonment multiple times, among other things, for the violent suppression of the protests that Tunisia has experienced in the last weeks of his reign. More than 300 people died.
