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At the Arts Fair Tunis in the spring, on the evening of the final day. The controversial exhibition sparked a major wave of protests on the last day, with critics accusing the artists of desecrating the sacred.© Images de Tunisie — watermarked preview

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10 juin : Au printemps des Arts Fair Tunis au soir du dernier jour. L'exposition polémique qui a lancé un grand mouvement de protestations au dernier jour accusant ces artistes de porter atteint au sacré. ici l'oeuvre de Mohamed Be, Slama, "couscus à l'agneau" dut e^tre retiré par la police dans la nuit pour éviter sa détérioration par des groupes de salafistes qui ont tenté d'investir le palais Abdellia à la Marsa où se déroule l'exposition . Cette polémique engagera les premiers affrontements entre l'état et les salafistes depuis deux jours obligeant le gouvernement à établir un nouveau couvre feu10 juin : Au printemps des Arts Fair Tunis au soir du dernier jour. L'exposition polémique qui a lancé un grand mouvement de protestations au dernier jour accusant ces artistes de porter atteint au sacré. ici l'oeuvre de Mohamed Be, Slama, "couscus à l'agneau" dut e^tre retiré par la police dans la nuit pour éviter sa détérioration par des groupes de salafistes qui ont tenté d'investir le palais Abdellia à la Marsa où se déroule l'exposition . Cette polémique engagera les premiers affrontements entre l'état et les salafistes depuis deux jours obligeant le gouvernement à établir un nouveau couvre feuJune 10: At the Spring Arts Fair in Tunis, the morning after the final day. The controversial exhibition sparked a major wave of protests on the last day, with critics accusing the artists of desecrating the sacred. That night, clashes broke out between the police and dozens of Salafists who attempted to force their way into the Abdellia Palace—which was hosting the art exhibition—with the aim of destroying the works deemed blasphemous. This controversy sparked the first clashes between the state and the Salafists in two days, forcing the government to impose a new curfew.June 10: At the Spring Arts Fair in Tunis, the morning after the final day. The controversial exhibition sparked a major wave of protests on the last day, with critics accusing the artists of desecrating the sacred. That night, clashes broke out between the police and dozens of Salafists who attempted to force their way into the Abdellia Palace—which was hosting the art exhibition—with the aim of destroying the works deemed blasphemous. This controversy sparked the first clashes between the state and the Salafists in two days, forcing the government to impose a new curfew.At the Arts Fair Tunis in the spring, on the evening of the final day. The controversial exhibition sparked a major wave of protests on the last day, with critics accusing the artists of desecrating the sacred.June 10: At the Arts Fair Tunis in the spring, on the evening of the final day. The controversial exhibition sparked a major wave of protests on the last day, with critics accusing the artists of desecrating the sacred. Here are the works that Salafists view as a provocation by secularists against religion, defining these works as a desecration of the sacred. This controversy sparked the first clashes between the state and the Salafists in two days, forcing the government to impose a new curfew.
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M14-519

At the Arts Fair Tunis in the spring, on the evening of the final day. The controversial exhibition sparked a major wave of protests on the last day, with critics accusing the artists of desecrating the sacred.

ReferenceM14-519
CategoryActualités / 2012 / M14-500 Spring Arts Expo
LicenceRM — rights managed
Date taken2012
PhotographerNicolas Fauqué
Copyright© Nicolas Fauqué / www.imagesdetunisie.com

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