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EIGHT TO FACE CHARGES OVER SOUSSE SLAYINGS By Alan Oakley
Tunisian police are ready to charge eight of the twelve suspects they have been holding in connection with last Friday’s beach hotel massacre in Sousse.
According to sources in the North African state, seven men and one woman will face charges over the killings. Four other suspects have been released. Tunisian authorities also revealed they were hunting two more militants who trained in Libya with the men who carried out last Friday’s killings and those at the Bardo Museum in March. Lazhar Akremi, minister for parliamentary relations, said: “This is a group who were trained in Libya, and who had the same objective. Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse. Tunisia’s health ministry has confirmed that 30 of the 38 tourists killed were British holidaymakers. The health ministry said all 38 victims had been formally identified, including the 30 Britons, three Irish citizens, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian national. The gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, targeted only foreigners in his shooting rampage at the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel before he was shot dead by police. Tunisian authorities say the student was trained in Libya at a jihadist camp last year. The attack, the worst such incident in Tunisia’s modern history, has dealt a serious blow to the important tourist indus-
A message left at the scene of Tunisia’s worst gun attack in modern times
try in the North African country. The vast majority of what is thought to be up to 20,000 Britons staying there at the time of the atrocity have been repatriated, while
others have remained defiant in their determination not to be cowed by terrorists. The Foreign Office have stopped short of declaring Tunisia a ‘no-go’ area, but
has issued the somewhat obvious caution that terrorist attacks are “a possibility”.
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