Tunisia’s prime minister has fired six police commanders, including the head of tourist security, after a militant attack on the national museum last week in which 23 people, including 20 tourists and two gunmen, were killed.

Habib Essid’s spokesman, Mofdi Mssedi, said the six also included an intelligence brigade chief, the Tunis district police chief, the traffic police commander, a Bardo security chief and a commander for the capital’s Sidi Bachir district.

“Habib Essid visited the Bardo museum yesterday ... and took note of several security failures” Mssedi said.
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A British woman was among 20 foreign tourists –including Japanese, Polish, Italian and Spanish visitors – killed by gunmen last Wednesday as they got off buses at the Bardo museum, inside the parliamentary compound, which is normally heavily guarded.

It was the worst attack in more than a decade in Tunisia, testing the north African country’s young democracy four years after the revolt that overthrew autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

Two gunmen were shot dead at the scene and authorities have arrested more than 20 people, 10 of whom officials believe were directly involved in the attack. Some had recently returned from fighting for Islamist militant groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
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Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed their supporters carried out the attack although a local al-Qaida affiliated group known as Okba Ibn Nafaa has also published details and comments on the assault.

Tunisia has been largely spared the violent aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, with secular and Islamist parties overcoming their divisions to compromise, approve a new constitution and hold free elections.

Hardline Islamist groups also emerged after the revolt against Ben Ali swept away his one-party rule. Since then, security forces have been caught up in a growing battle with extremists, some of whom are returning from training and fighting abroad.

Authorities say the two gunmen killed in the Bardo attack had trained in jihadi camps in Libya. More than 3,000 Tunisians left to fight in Syria and Iraq, and hundreds have returned.

CAN THIS HAPPEN IN NIGERIA..
vote wisely
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/tunisian-security-officials-lose-jobs-in-wake-of-shootings

Something one Fedora hat wearing man would never do.

When will our government do the needful instead of using them as their dog?

That's why we need to vote a more responsible govt that care and value the lives of its citizens no matter what tribe or ethnicity they are from

politricks:
Something one Fedora hat wearing man would never do.

He would have denied the incident never happened or blame it on the opposition

Sai Habib Essid
Sai Buhari....we trust in you!!!