Events of Gafsa
The events of Gafsa indicate an attempt at Coup d'etat against the Tunisian mode organized by its two neighbors, the Libya and the Algérie, in 1980.
Context
Libya and Algeria shelter parties resulting from the National front of the forces progressists founded to Tripoli by former partisans of Salah Ben Youssef isolated of the Tunisian political field. Those involve compatriots in search of work on the Libyan territory. A commando of 300 Tunisians armed by Libya and supported by the Algerian military informations, then directed by Kasdi Merbah, succeeds in being formed.
Wire of the events
- January 26th: The commando attacks the mining city of Gafsa which awakes under a heavy shooting of automatic weapons. The inhabitants are locked up and remained deaf with the calls of pirate radio station which exhorts them to raise itself.
- January 27th: The commando seizes the Caserne of the city. The army is charged to subdue the Insurrection.
- February 3rd: Gafsa is taken again in hand by the army at the died costs of 48 and a hundred casualties.
- February 4th: Libyan demonstrators set fire to the Ambassade France in Tripoli and the Arts center French of Benghazi is attacked
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