Algerian families call on the Tunisian president to recover their children.

Families of 39 illegal immigrants counted missing October of last year resorted to call on the Tunisian president Zine Al Aabidine Ben Ali to help them know their fates after having exhausted all means to recover them.

• In a letter send by these families to the president, they told the story of some 39 immigrants from the province of Annaba (eastern Algeria) a Moroccan and three Tunisians set sail last year’s October on two wooden boats.
• The families lost all contacts with their relatives except, according to the text, a phone call from one of them who informed them that their boats went out of fuel 
• And that a third boat carrying other Algerian immigrants, on their way to the Italian shores, noticed their presence and informed the Italian authorities who, on their turn, get in touch with their Tunisian counterparts to signal the presence of two boats drifting on the Tunisian territorial waters.
• Following these elements of information the families moved several times to the Tunisian territory with the hope to recover their children but didn’t succeed, despite evidences given by their Tunisian lawyer informing them that the immigrants were put in custody by the Tunisian authorities.
• The families wrote on their letter “ M president we need to set our mind at rest and know the fate of our children, we do not care if they are sued by the Italian authorities or they are in jail, we only need to know whether they are dead or alive”