Tunisia to investigate former president's death after controversy
Following controversial statements about him being murdered, Tunisia's Ministry of Justice orders an investigation into the former President Beji Caid Essebsi's death.
The Tunisian Minister of Justice, Leila Jaffal, has ordered an investigation into the circumstances of the death of former President Beji Caid Essebsi, following controversial media reports about his death.
Tunisian radio Mosaique reported that Jaffal ordered the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the former president, following controversial statements raised during a televised interview regarding Essebsi's death.
According to media reports, former Ennahda movement official, Sheikh Mohammad Hentati, who was a guest on a television program this week, claimed that Essebsi was murdered.
It is noteworthy that on July 25, 2019, the Tunisian presidency announced the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi at the age of 92.
President: Conspiracies in Tunisia being planned:
On Thursday, Tunisian President Kais Saied warned the people of Tunisia to stay vigilant over the plots being prepared, going as far as assassination, urging them to "take caution over the plots of some traitors who sold their conscience to foreign intelligence."
The President also highlighted a recording of a phone call Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine possesses, which speaks of an assassination plot and specifies the day of the assassination.
A Tunisian court had sentenced in absentia former President Moncef Marzouki to four years in jail.
The official Tunisian news agency reported that Marzouki's prison sentence came over charges of conspiring against state security.