• Director(s):

    THOMSON (DAVID)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, CARGO CULTE PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET

Since the revolution, the Salafist-Jihadist movement has attracted increasing numbers in Tunisia.

Thousands of young people today claim to follow Ansar al Charia (the partisans of the Sharia), an organisation that is openly favourable to the Jihad, and was founded 3 months after the fall of Ben Ali by former Afghanistan fighters, close to Al-Qaeda. For nearly 8 months, ARTE REPORTAGE followed officials from Ansar al Charia, who, on a daily basis, engage in charity operations wherever the Tunisian state is absent, with the unique aim of establishing the Caliphate, an Islamic state that strictly applies the Sharia. The movement has not yet called for the Jihad in the country, but hundreds of its partisans are currently fighting in the name of Islam in Mali and Syria. On Tunisian soil, with deadly clashes between the police and Salafists increasing in number, the new authorities are overwhelmed and fear that the holy war will end up taking hold in Tunisia.