Tunisia removes hundreds of migrants to desert border region

The Irish Times view on the EU’s response to the migrant crisis: a scandal of our eraMoez Barakallah, a lawmaker from Sfax, said authorities had provided migrants removed from Sfax with meals and medicines and had sent about 1,200 of them to areas near the Libyan and Algerian borders. He said border security officers had taken charge of the migrants and would decide on further steps.

Mr Ben Omar said rights activists in Sfax had reported beatings of migrants, ejections from accommodation they had rented and arbitrary detentions by local residents over the past several days before police intervened and restored order. Unverified videos posted on social media showed young Tunisian men in Sfax detaining migrants, raising sticks and asking them to repeat, “Long live Tunisia”.There has been a large increase in migration across the Mediterranean from Tunisia this year after a crackdown by Tunis on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa living in the country illegally and reports of racist attacks amid an economic downturn.

Last month, hundreds of Sfax residents protested against the presence of thousands of migrants and asked authorities to deport them, saying Sfax must not become a city of refugees. Tunisia is under pressure from Europe to stop large numbers departing from its coasts. But president Kais Saied said that Tunisia will not be a border guard and that it will not accept the settlement of immigrants in the country. – Reuters

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