The most important issues at the meeting between President of the Republic, Kais Saied, on Monday morning at the Carthage Palace, and Minister of the Interior, Kamel Fekih, Director General of National Security, Mourad Saidane, and Director General of the National Guard, Major Hassine Gharbi, were the general security situation in the country and the role of the internal security forces in enforcing respect for the law on everyone without exception. The meeting also addressed the issue of road safety and the need to tackle the causes that have led to the escalation of traumatic accidents in recent times, which claimed hundreds of lives since the beginning of this year, said a statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic. The President of the Republic considered that one of the main reasons for these alarming figures is the lack of respect for the law by road users, who sometimes boast of breaking it. The President of the Republic added that there are many other reasons linked to urban development within cities, such as pavements, which are sometimes no more than a metre wide, and certain roads that have become death lanes, pointing out that those who built them chose profit and colluded with parties who were supposed to play their role of control, but who indulged in corruption that caused the emptying of state funds and the loss of human lives. The meeting also addressed the phenomenon of the proliferation of drugs, where the President of the Republic stressed the need to dismantle the criminal networks because this phenomenon threatens the security of the country and those who seek to dismantle the State seek to dismantle society as they see fit. As for the phenomenon of migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Tunisia, the President of the Republic stressed that the Tunisian state will not accept those who encroach on its territory, set up their own courts, brandish weapons and terrorise Tunisian citizens, as the case in particular in the city of Sfax and its suburbs. The President of the Republic considered this situation to be abnormal, wondering why these migrants chose the town of Sfax in particular, and whether they knew it beforehand and were in their own countries, or whether they had been directed there by a previous measure. The President of the Republic stressed that Tunisia does not traffic in human beings or their organs, expressing his refusal to target the country's security and disregard its laws.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse