Dienstag, 04.02.2025 / 14:32 Uhr

Tunesien: Systematische Misshandlungen von Flüchtlingen

Laut einem neuen Bericht werden in Tunesien Flüchtlinge systematisch durch Sicherheitskräfte misshandelt.

In Tunesien, mit dem die EU ja auch so genannte Flüchtlingsdeals abgeschlossen hat, misshandeln Sicherheitskräfte offenbar systematisch Flüchtlinge, berauben sie ihrer Habseligkeiten und missbrauchen sie sexuell.

Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt der jüngst vorgestellter Bericht: “State Trafficking: Expulsion and sale of migrants from Tunisia to Libya”

Darin sind die Zeigenaussgaen von dreißig Betroffenen zusammengefasst, die schockierender kaum sein könnten:

All testimonies spoke of “the sale of human beings at the border by Tunisian police and military apparatuses, as well as the interconnection between the infrastructure behind expulsions and the kidnapping industry in Libyan prisons”.

The events and situations documented amount to "state crimes" as per international law, the authors pointed out.

RR[X], the network of anonymous researchers who worked on the report, found that migrating people would first be arrested in Tunisia, then taken to the border with Libya where they are put in a detention camp run by Tunisian authorities, before being sold off to armed Libyan groups and the Libyan army.

RR[X] says that while not all interviewees saw the money exchanged for them, due to “the violent context and because transactions can take place at night”, the most common prices have ranged between 40 and 300 Tunisian dinars ($12.3 to $92.4) per person.

“The price is based on the final value which the person being sold can generate through their ransom, the overall size of the group and its composition,” the report says.

"Women cost more, because in Libya women are considered sex objects," a witness told the researchers.

When the migrants’ families are contacted, they are typically asked by the Libyan captors to pay a 500 euro (roughly $513.4) ransom, or else the migrants would continuously get beaten and tortured.

At each stage of their forced transfer to Libya, witnesses recount humiliation, violence and even acts of torture.

"They behaved as if we weren’t human beings," one of the witnesses told the researchers.

A young woman from Ivory Coast said: “On the buses, the National Guard [in charge of border control] search our children and women, they touch women. They touch our private parts, they rape women in front of men on the buses. In front of our husbands, they don't care. They broke the heads of many men [because they were protesting], they mistreated us as if we were animals…”