(Adnkronos) – Tires set on fire, anger and indignation in Tunisia. A crowd took to the streets after the death of three high school students, victims of the collapse of the wall of their school in Mazouna, in the governorate of Sidi Bouzid. An Afp journalist speaks of hundreds of people in the square after the death of the three boys who, according to the Civil Protection, were between 18 and 19 years old. The Ugtt union has proclaimed a day of strike in schools for today.
This morning there was the last farewell for two of them. Another had already been buried yesterday. And today the inhabitants of Mazouna gathered in front of a National Guard barracks to demand “justice”. “We will not remain silent”, was one of the slogans chanted by the crowd. Other protesters set fire to tires. “We have no work, no protection, nothing at all,” a resident of the city strongly denounces in a video circulating on social media.
The Ugtt has called for a day of strike in schools “as a sign of mourning” and to protest against “the failure of the authorities to find real and serious solutions to save public schools”. The Tunisian presidency has announced that President Kais Saied “has given instructions” for those responsible to be held accountable, to prevent tragedies like the one in Mazouna from happening again and to speed up work “in all schools”.
