Tunisian official refuses British report over Sousse attack

Tunisian Interior Minister Hedi Majdoub, respond to what was stated in the British investigation, that Tunisian security forces failed in dealing with Sousse terrorist attack in June 2015, saying :" Words are not important, but what is important is to provide proof to these allegations."

The minister added, in a media statement on the sidelines of his supervision, in Rades, on the celebration of the International Day of Civil Protection, that the ministry will interact with the information received on this subject and will have an appropriate response.

The official spokesman for the judicial pole to combat terrorism, Sufian Sulaiti, had told Africa News Agency, on Wednesday, that the judge accused the suspects of not rescuing person at risk and refraining from doing that contrary to  laws, resulted in the death of one element of the security forces.

Sulaiti added that the investigating judge had ended the investigation in this case, in the July 4, 2016, and referred it to the court of appeal, noting that the trial session was not set yet.

He also revealed that the suspects in this case are 33, 14 of them in the case of the arrest, and 12 others in the case of the release, and seven other will be tried in absentia.

For his part, Nicholas Lorraine Smith, the British investigative judge who investigated in the cause of killing of 30 British tourists in an attack in Sousse, has said that the tourists did not rely on trip advisor or a hotel, and he did not rule out the charge of negligence, criticizing the Tunisian security after investigations which continued six weeks.