A Tunisian court held its first public hearing on Friday in the trial of 33 people in connection with a 2015 jihadist beach massacre that killed dozens of foreign tourists. A student armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and grenades went on a rampage in the Port el-Kantaoui resort near Sousse killing 38 holidaymakers, 30 … Read more
The first public hearing into the June 2015 attack in the Tunisian resort of Sousse that killed 38 foreign tourists has been set for next week, the court said Friday. “The trial on the attack at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel will begin on April 28,” court spokesman Sofiene Sliti told AFP. A total of 33 … Read more
The Tunisian police response to the 2015 Sousse beach resort massacre was “at best shambolic, at worst cowardly”, the judge investigating the deaths of 30 Britons in the attack said Tuesday. “Their response could and should have been more effective,” judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said in his conclusions after a series of hearings that began in … Read more