“When he left the school after monitoring the movement of a traffic police car that was parked in the vicinity, he shot the first victim at about 8:13 p.m. Tunisia is mired in political and economic crisis, and the synagogue attack is a new blow to its once-thriving tourism industry as well as to a vibrant Jewish community.įekri said the gunman killed one of his colleagues and seized his weapon at a national guard base on the coast of Djerba, then took a National Guard motorcycle to a schoolyard about 200 meters from the Ghriba temple, where hundreds of worshipers were present. The interior minister called on security services to be vigilant for any efforts to destabilize the North African country. Israeli and Tunisian authorities and family members identified the civilian victims as cousins: Aviel Haddad, 30, who held dual Tunisian and Israeli citizenship, and Benjamin Haddad, 42, who was French. The minister described the shooting as a “cowardly criminal attack” but refrained from calling it a terrorist act.įrance’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office opened an investigation. Fekih said security forces killed the gunman within 120 seconds of arriving outside the synagogue complex.
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