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Ben Ali is dead. Dead. And even thrice.
Ben Ali died February 17, 2011, after two days in a coma in a hospital in Jeddah, from complications resulting from cardiac arrest, officials said Saudi Arabia can be read on the blog Tony Blair.
Ben Ali was dead the first time, politically, when he fled from Tunisia, one evening in January 2011. Since then he was gone. His country had dreamed of escaping poverty, indifferent to the fate of the former dictator.
Late yesterday morning, news JSS was the first to report the death of Ben Ali. No agency has confirmed, but the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood IkhwanWeb, introduced him to turn a few minutes later.
What might look like an unconfirmed rumor actually quite simply explained, and the Blog of Tony Blair puts us on track: "His death was not confirmed officially." Tony Blair does not say is not dead, but his death was not confirmed by official channels.
Ben Ali is dead, but not "officially dead". The detail is of utmost importance, because his family wants to bury Ben Ali in Tunisia, said 24heuresactu.com.
But according to Muslim ritual, burial should take place the day of death, and the family of Ben Ali is negotiating with the Tunisian authorities for permission to bury the former president, in Tunis.
When negotiations are successfully concluded, and the body of Ben Ali is on its way to the Tunisian soil, then and only then we will kill Ben Ali a third time.
Jean-Patrick Grumberg
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