Tunisian Police Arrest Algerian University Professor In Tunis

“Echorouk” has learnt from documented sources that a University Professor working at the University of El Oued Province (south-eastern Algeria) was assailed and robbed of his car, his money and all his belongings and his passport. His sons, wife and parents were also attacked by unknown individuals in a neighborhood of the Tunisian capital Tunis.

According to information available to ”Echorouk”, the hapless victim, namely Samer Zelassi, a Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Management and Commercial Sciences at the University of Hama Lakhdar in El Oued province, was accompanied by his family members on a recreation trip in a neighborhood in Tunis before an unidentified gang, burst in and stole all his money, his mobile phones, his passport, as well the belongings of his wife, his parents and his sons. 

Then, the thieves seized his car and fled with it, after they had beaten him up severely and he and all his companions, inflicting on them severe injuries and were left by the thieves in a very bad psychological state. 

The University Professor then went to the nearby police station in order to lodge a complaint that he has been robbed of all his possessions but was surprised by the insults from the Tunisian security agents who, instead of starting a search operation to track down the vile perpetrators, and to help the family of the victims, they arrested Professor Zelassi Samer, and put him in prison on the pretext of allegedly insulting a security body.

After learning about this harrowing situation, their parents residing in El Oued swiftly informed the Rector of El Oued University, Professor Omar Farhati, who urgently alerted the relevant Algerian authorities, notably the services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Algerian General Consulate in Tunis, about the woeful mishap which befell this Algerian University Professor during his calamitous trip to Tunisia.