Tunisia: New Air Unit to Monitor Terrorists’ Infiltration via Shores
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior has announced
setting up a new air unit reinforced by three Bell 429 helicopters. The unit
will be assigned to monitor the Tunisian shores during disasters and health
evacuation as well as prevent infiltration of terrorist members to the Tunisian
tourist regions.
Security sources revealed that this unit would regularly
oversee the Tunisian shores – this would clamp down upcoming terrorist risks
(around 1,300 km from the shores.) It would also observe the illegal migration
towards Italian shores.
Tunisia declared a closed military zone in states of
the western center in addition to an isolated region along the eastern border
with Libya. Moreover, a berm and an electronic fence were built to limit
repetitive infiltration of terrorists from terror camps in Libya.
The Tunisian shores remained unsupervised, which
demanded to form this unit to reduce terrorist threats.
Notably, Tunisian security reports affirmed that
terrorist Seif Eddine Rizki who targeted a tourist hotel in Sousse (in the
center of eastern Tunisia) on June 26, 2015, sneaked through the Tunisian shores
facing Sousse.
He opened fire on a group of foreign tourists,
killing 39. Most of the victims were British.
