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Mohamed al-Zouari dec 15 2016
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16 dec 2019
The defense team tasked with handling the case of slain Tunisian drone expert Mohamed Zouari has accused the French ambassador in Tunis, Olivier Poivre, of being involved in the assassination of Zouari four years ago.
Mohamed Zouari was assassinated on December 15, 2016 in Sfax city when he was shot dead in a drive-by shooting operation generally attributed to the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. video
Zouari was a Tunisian aerospace engineer, who worked for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas and led its drone program.
“There are political parties, businessmen and a female journalist involved in this file, including the current French ambassador, who played a major role in it,” lawyer Abdul-Raouf al-Ayyadi, from the defense team, said in recent press remarks.
Ayyadi affirmed that the defense team filed two lawsuits related to espionage and murder against the French ambassador.
He also accused former tourism minister Amel Karboul and current tourism minister Rene Trabelsi of having direct ties with an Israeli spy who owns Carmel travel agency in Tel Aviv and played a major role in the assassination of Zouari.
The lawyer pointed out that the file of Zouari’s assassination had been ignored by the Tunisian government, but his family would meet with president Qais Sa’eid, who had pledged during his election campaign to reopen the file.
Mohamed Zouari was assassinated on December 15, 2016 in Sfax city when he was shot dead in a drive-by shooting operation generally attributed to the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. video
Zouari was a Tunisian aerospace engineer, who worked for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas and led its drone program.
“There are political parties, businessmen and a female journalist involved in this file, including the current French ambassador, who played a major role in it,” lawyer Abdul-Raouf al-Ayyadi, from the defense team, said in recent press remarks.
Ayyadi affirmed that the defense team filed two lawsuits related to espionage and murder against the French ambassador.
He also accused former tourism minister Amel Karboul and current tourism minister Rene Trabelsi of having direct ties with an Israeli spy who owns Carmel travel agency in Tel Aviv and played a major role in the assassination of Zouari.
The lawyer pointed out that the file of Zouari’s assassination had been ignored by the Tunisian government, but his family would meet with president Qais Sa’eid, who had pledged during his election campaign to reopen the file.
29 may 2018
Croatia’s top court on Monday blocked the extradition of a Bosnian man to Tunisia over the murder of pro-Hamas aerospace engineer Mohamed al-Zouari.
Mohamed Zouari, 49, was killed in a hail of bullets outside his house in Tunisia’s southern city of Sfax in December 2016.
“The Supreme Court accepted the appeal of the suspect… and rejected the request for extradition from the Republic of Tunisia,” the court said in a statement.
At a hearing on May 8, the lower court said it had established that “legal preconditions” had been met for the extradition of Alen Camdzic, 46, who has been named by local media.
The final decision will be made by the justice minister.
The suspect was arrested in Croatia, on March 13, on an international warrant. He has been held in custody since, the court in Velika Gorica, near Zagreb, said in a statement.
Camdzic’s arrest was announced by Tunisian prosecutors, who said they believed that two people with Bosnian passports had carried out the killing.
The second suspect, Elvir Sarac, was briefly detained in Sarajevo earlier this week, but released when a court refused to hand him over to Tunisia, saying there was no extradition deal between the countries.
Camdzic served in the police during Bosnia’s 1990s war and became a professional soldier after the conflict, media reports said.
Shortly after Zouari’s death, Hamas said he was a drone expert who had worked for the “resistance” for a decade, before being killed by Zionist treachery.
In November 2017, Zouari’s family denounced “silence” on the part of authorities and called on them to provide more details on the investigation into his killing.
Mohamed Zouari, 49, was killed in a hail of bullets outside his house in Tunisia’s southern city of Sfax in December 2016.
“The Supreme Court accepted the appeal of the suspect… and rejected the request for extradition from the Republic of Tunisia,” the court said in a statement.
At a hearing on May 8, the lower court said it had established that “legal preconditions” had been met for the extradition of Alen Camdzic, 46, who has been named by local media.
The final decision will be made by the justice minister.
The suspect was arrested in Croatia, on March 13, on an international warrant. He has been held in custody since, the court in Velika Gorica, near Zagreb, said in a statement.
Camdzic’s arrest was announced by Tunisian prosecutors, who said they believed that two people with Bosnian passports had carried out the killing.
The second suspect, Elvir Sarac, was briefly detained in Sarajevo earlier this week, but released when a court refused to hand him over to Tunisia, saying there was no extradition deal between the countries.
Camdzic served in the police during Bosnia’s 1990s war and became a professional soldier after the conflict, media reports said.
Shortly after Zouari’s death, Hamas said he was a drone expert who had worked for the “resistance” for a decade, before being killed by Zionist treachery.
In November 2017, Zouari’s family denounced “silence” on the part of authorities and called on them to provide more details on the investigation into his killing.
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