Four other suicides have occurred since midDecember

The promises made by President Ben Ali, Monday, to create, by 2012, 300,000 more jobs were not defused the crisis. A crisis since 17 December and the suicide of a young man of twenty-six years, Sidi Bouzid, which protested against the seizure of his goods by the police, only way to live his own. The Tunisia crosses the biggest riots since the arrival to power of Ben Ali, twenty-three years ago. Four other suicides have occurred since mid-December. Schools and universities are closed throughout the country. The unrest spread to coastal cities, in the heart of the tourist Tunisia, said yesterday the President of the International Federation of leagues of the droits de l'homme (FIDH), Souhayr Belhassen. More serious: she won the capital, where many clashes broke out between residents of the working-class suburb of Ettadamen and the forces of order, resulting in ransacked stores and arson in the evening. Earlier in the day, police had dispersed an early manifestation of artists and prevented another manifestation of journalists, which intended to protest against the repression of social unrest and "barriers" to the exercise of their work. "We wanted to demonstrate for ...". "denounce the obstacles to the work of journalists, prevented from freely making account of unrest the country", said the former President of the national Union of journalists, Neji Bghouri.

According to the information disseminated by the human rights organizations, the balance of the victims of the riots to mistakes. "It is chaos in Kasserine after a night of violence, fire of snipers, looting and theft of businesses and homes by plainclothes police troops then withdrew," said yesterday a trade unionist, Member of the regional branch of the General Union of Tunisian workers (UGTT), Sadok Mahmoudi. "The number of deaths exceeded the fifty" in the past three days in this city, capital of the region which left the movement in mid-December.

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The International Federation of human rights leagues advance "a list" of 35 dead while assessing the reality of the number of victims "around 50", then the Tunisian authorities argue the figure of 21 dead.

The Tunisian Government, Kasserine was "the theatre of acts of violence and destruction perpetrated by groups who attacked two police stations, kicked of incendiary bottles, sticks and iron bars".

Europe and the United States expressed concern about the turn of events. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, expressed "concern about climbing violent clashes." In France, critics are multiplying on the attitude of the Government, considered too benevolent towards the Ben Ali regime. The France can only "deplore violence", responded, yesterday, the French Foreign Affairs Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie. The critics, it warned against the "anathemas" and proposed to the Tunisia law enforcement cooperation. The French Minister of Agriculture, Bruno Le Maire, on Canal , yesterday defended the Tunisian regime. "President Ben Ali is someone who is often considered", he argued. "He has done many things" for his country. "Silence or all at least complacency towards the Ben Ali regime is a problem," said the General Secretary of Europe ecology the Greens on Europe 1, Cécile Duflot. As the Socialist Jean-Pierre sweat, President of the friendship group for France-Tunisia in the Senate, he was taken to "violent repression" against the demonstrators.