France, Tunisia: Has the Minister of Foreign Affairs Lost Her Mind?

The French and North African blogosphere and twittosphere reacted violently to the statement by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Michelle Alliot-Marie who proposed at the French national assembly that France offers “technical support” and “the know-how of the French police” to the Tunisian police regarding the current uprising in Tunisia.  The same Tunisian police who is involved in the bloody repression (fr) of the riots in Kasserine, Thala and other Tunisian cities.  French  blogger Thierry Desjardin writes a post entitled : “ A hideous mistake“(fr) and  BernardB wonders : “Has she lost her mind ?” (fr).

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