Tunisian President Kais Saied calls migration ‘a plot to change Tunisia’s demographic composition’

Tunisian President Kais Saied sparked outrage after he said on Tuesday in an official statement that the arrival of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia is a plot that “changes the demographic composition of Tunisia”.

Far-right French politician Eric Zemmour also highlighted Saied’s statements on Twitter on the same day, saying that “Maghreb countries themselves are ringing the alarm about surging migration” and asking “what we are waiting for to fight the Great Replacement”, referring to a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims that migration is being used to replace white people in western countries.

In recent years, Tunisia has been a key transit hub for people from other African countries crossing the Mediterranean to enter Europe.

Tunisian authorities have recently detained several critics and dissenters as part of a crackdown which has been decried as another part of Saied’s ongoing power grab.

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