In order to determine the circumstances behind the discovery of five incomplete foetuses’ remains buried on the roof of a private medical facility in the Bizerte Governorate in the country’s north, the Public Prosecution in Tunisia launched an inquiry on Thursday.
This action is in response to a distressing social media video that depicts five dispersed bodies of unborn children that were discovered buried under decorative plant implantation pots above the surface of a specialised doctor’s clinic.
In the details, riots erupted between two football fans and the police forces after the end of the match between the Tunisian Esperance and Benzarti club, after which a group climbed the roof of one of the buildings and threw the security forces in Asas, was found on a private medical clinic, which led to the breaking and scattering of 5 bodies. Everyone was taken aback by this image, for buried inside were incomplete embryos.
The police, who detained the doctor, the clinic’s owner, said that their investigation will continue to provide light on the circumstances of this case and that the source of these foetuses was an unlawful abortion that occurred within the doctor’s clinic.
The law in Tunisia does not prohibit a woman from having an abortion or allowing the foetus to be terminated, provided that the pregnancy is terminated within three months of conception or after three months if the mother’s health is in danger. In either case, the pregnancy must be terminated in a hospital or clinic that has been licenced by a direct doctor of his profession legally.
The law states that “the punishment of women for the crime of abortion under any circumstance, whether it is used as a home to abortion or headed to an equipped centre, with imprisonment for two years and a fine of $650, and imprisonment and financial fine are punished by those who helped her from that of this crime,” with the exception of these two instances. The people, relatives and the doctor who performed the operation or the pharmacist who sold the medication of abortion, and tightened the punishment to reach 10 years for those who helped abortion and have a medical authority to perform projection or give medications to help it.
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Fetan bodies on the roof of a clinic in Tunisia, with prosecutors attempting to solve the mystery
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