He demanded a nationwide strike, the formation of a local union, and an examination into the methods used to find the missing and bury them.
According to the “Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights,” a group that monitors the immigration file, on the night of September 20–21, a migrant boat carrying 18 Tunisians was lost and two bodies were recovered. The authorities were also confused by the presence of four bodies that had previously been recovered and had been mistakenly buried in an immigrant cemetery.
According to a France Press correspondent, thousands of city residents, including the families of the missing, gathered and organised a march in the city’s main street, urging the authorities to step up their search for the missing and denouncing the earlier interment of bodies in an immigrant cemetery, which it was later discovered belonged to some of the missing people.
There is a cemetery in Gerges where immigrants’ remains are interred, the majority of whom are of African descent.
The nation’s stores and institutions of government were all closed, and only emergency medical care was provided.
Some demonstrators uploaded pictures of their missing children and banners on which they wrote “a state crime” and “we demand the truth.
” On Monday, President Qais Saeed asked Minister of Justice Laila Juffal to open a judicial investigation into the immigration file, “so that the Tunisians and Tunisians know the full truth and to bear those behind these calamities, the consequences of his violations and his shortcomings. ”
The absence of equipment causes problems for the operations of immigrants’ objection or rescue, according to the Tunisian authorities.
The frequency of unauthorised immigration efforts from the Tunisian and Libyan coasts towards Italy is rising as the country’s weather conditions improve; these attempts occasionally result in drowning tragedies.
Following the drowning of migrants at sea, Tunisian Gerges went on a general strike.
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