According to his family, a professional footballer in Tunisia who had earlier this week set himself on fire in a show of protest against “police injustice” has since passed away.
Nizar Issaoui, a 35-year-old football player from Tunisia, had third-degree burns and was brought to a burns hospital in Tunis, where medics were unable to save his life, according to his brother on Friday.
Issaoui, a father of four and a former player for top-flight club US Monastir, posted a video on Facebook in which he said the cause of his protest was being wrongfully labeled as “terrorism” in the village of Haffouz, Kairouan, central Tunisia.
After a career that saw him play for a variety of clubs from the lower divisions to the top flight, Issaoui was a free agent at the time of his death.
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Issaoui’s demonstration was reminiscent of that of street seller Mohamed Bouazizi, whose suicide on December 17, 2010, ignited the Tunisian revolution, which served as the impetus for the Arab Spring upheavals that resulted in the overthrow of autocratic authorities throughout the Middle East.
According to reports in Tunisian media, Issaoui’s death news provoked demonstrations in the streets of Haffouz. Police fired tear gas in response to young protesters throwing stones at them.
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When Issaoui protested that he couldn’t buy bananas for less than 10 dinars ($3.30) a kilogram, which is double the price established by the government, police accused him of being a terrorist and he made his protest against them.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Tunisia is going through its worst economic crisis in a generation, with food becoming more and more scarce and inflation averaging at 11%.
The International Monetary Fund and the Tunisian government are discussing a credit arrangement worth $1.9 billion. The COVID-19 outbreak and the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine widened the nation’s economic deficit.
Issaoui stated, “For a dispute with someone selling bananas at 10 dinars, I get accused of terrorism at the police station,” in a Facebook post published just before he committed his terrible deed. To complain about bananas is terrorism.
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