Tunisian court hands capital punishments to five following 2020 deadly tribal confrontations – The North Africa Post

The courtroom of First Occasion of the coastal metropolis of Gabes, condemned Wednesday 5 individuals to capital punishments, a sixth particular person to life imprisonment, all of them charged with premeditated homicide and possession of a firearm with no allow throughout a 2020 confrontation between two tribes in Ain skhouna, South of Tunisia.
December 12, 2020, two tribes, respectively from Douz in Kebili governorate and from Béni Khedech in Medenine governorate clashed over land points. Three individuals had been killed within the confrontations. 60 different individuals had been injured. President Kais Saied visited the scene December 14.
The prosecution in Medenine indicted 12 individuals all of them accused of premeditated homicide and possession of a firearm with no allow.
Mounir Arroum, the Spokesperson of the Gabes courtroom of First Occasion advised media that the tribunal slapped capital punishments on 5, a sixth particular person sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia whereas the seventh defendant was additionally condemned to life imprisonment.
Different defendants had been additionally handed sentences starting from eight to 10 years. One particular person has been acquitted.