Why Is It Difficult to Prosecute Rached Ghannouchi and His Gang?
Do you know why Kais Saied and the Tunisian judiciary cannot prosecute Rached Ghannouchi and his gang for their crimes against Tunisia over the past half-century? Because these crimes fall under the category of political crimes. As everyone knows, political crimes differ from ordinary crimes. While ordinary people may commit murders that lead to execution, politicians can commit crimes of murder, displacement, and starvation of entire nations for decades without being punished—unless another authority intervenes with different laws. The harshest punishment they may face could be execution, life imprisonment, house arrest, or exile.
Returning to our question: what is the obstacle preventing Kais Saied and the Tunisian judiciary from prosecuting Rached Ghannouchi and the members of the Ennahda Party? Why does he charge them with other offenses instead of the real ones?
Ghannouchi, his party, and many other political figures and opposition or ruling parties across North Africa and the Middle East are opportunists. They think only about their personal interests, their parties, and their supporters, without any regard for the nation or its future. They look down upon the people rather than serving and uplifting them. They consider the people incapable of progress and untrustworthy—when in reality, the opposite is true.
We always notice that the political and intellectual elite are disconnected from the people, leading them to seek external support from both the East and the West to maintain control over these populations. Of course, foreign support is not based on love for our people nor is it in our best interest—it is used to serve external agendas. This is understandable from their perspective. The result is that our countries remain trapped in destruction and backwardness, far from development and civilization. Our nations operate below zero, economically and politically controlled by foreign powers.
These politicians cannot be prosecuted because of the information and secrets they possess, which could expose the actions of other politicians abroad who enjoy immunity and influence. These foreign figures claim to be defenders of freedom and democracy, despite their involvement in heinous crimes against the peoples of the region and the Third World. From plundering resources to fueling internal and external wars and obstructing progress, they ensure that we, in the Third World, remain weak, powerless, and mere servants for the global elite—executing their plans to destroy our countries, impoverish our people, and enrich their own.
Rached Ghannouchi and his gang came to power through foreign support and intervention to serve their own interests. Do you truly believe that a revolution took place in Tunisia? If so, you are delusional. Do you think the Ennahda Party reached power through genuine efforts and popularity? You are mistaken. Like the Dawa Party and Ahmad Chalabi in Iraq, they entered with the help of American tanks. Ghannouchi and his gang came through a premeditated coup. Ben Ali and Bourguiba were not angels, but they were not devils like Rached Ghannouchi. The true devil of Tunisia is Rached Ghannouchi, and all those around him are demons—only his supporters deny this fact. Their goal is to destroy Tunisia, regardless of their political or ideological affiliations.
From the beginning, Rached Ghannouchi’s mission was to prevent any progress or development in Tunisia. He fought modernity and freedom, working tirelessly to dismantle advancement and civilization in the country. After securing power for ten years, he continued his mission of destruction—not just in Tunisia, but also in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria. He spread chaos and terrorism, committed crimes, destroyed the economy, fragmented political parties, and sought to dismantle state institutions—particularly the security forces built by Bourguiba and maintained by Ben Ali, despite his many flaws. Ghannouchi’s crimes reached unprecedented levels in his efforts to ruin Tunisia.
Now, his role in the destruction is over, just like others who were used and then discarded into the trash heap of history. These mercenaries may be assassinated, superficially prosecuted, or even exiled—the key goal is to silence them. A real and fair trial will never take place, especially if it is public, as it would expose those who managed them from abroad and who control global politics. These forces seek to expand their influence and wealth at the cost of deepening poverty and marginalizing others.
The prosecution of Ghannouchi and his gang in Tunisia will never happen unless a truly national government takes power. Just as Ben Ali was never prosecuted during the rule of Ennahda and the Troika because they were controlled by foreign powers, Ghannouchi and Ennahda will not be prosecuted under Kais Saied. Despite his conflicts with Ennahda and Ghannouchi, Saied shares the same mentality and is equally complicit in Tunisia’s destruction, preventing it from becoming a free and independent nation.
This is why he enjoys support from certain foreign political circles—to continue the devastation, suppress freedoms, and sabotage the Tunisian economy as much as possible. The goal is to drive the Tunisian people to a dead end where they lose all hope in collective change and focus only on individual survival—escaping Tunisia by any means necessary, even if death is preferable to their miserable existence.
Kais Saied is a fool who came to power on a silver platter, easily manipulated through financial pressures and unbalanced political alliances to further wreck Tunisia. He seeks to enforce an archaic constitution that reflects his backward thinking, entrench dictatorship, suppress freedoms, imprison journalists and bloggers, and even detain some Ennahda members and their affiliates on flimsy charges. This earns him temporary popularity among ignorant supporters who share his views or among those who hate Ennahda for political or personal reasons. Meanwhile, he ensures he does not anger his foreign masters, who throw him crumbs to keep him focused on Tunisia’s complete destruction.
Despite his emotional speeches and empty promises, which only naïve minds believe, Kais Saied will never dare challenge the powers that put him in office. Nor will he prosecute Ennahda in a real and public trial. He cannot even confidently declare Tunisia a truly independent and sovereign state. He cannot forbid the burial of Tunisians in Israel, even though he claims in his speeches that normalization with Israel is a crime. Furthermore, he cannot stop Israeli citizens from visiting Tunisia, nor can he refuse the humiliating loans from the IMF or reject the foreign handouts he constantly seeks.
Kais Saied was brought to power to bury freedom—not just in Tunisia, but across North Africa and the Middle East. His mission is to crush hope, enforce submission, and declare that our nations are incapable of self-governance or sovereignty. That is his primary and final task. But will he succeed? Certainly not—he has not and will not.
The real question now is: Does the crisis in Tunisia truly follow the saying, “The worse it gets, the sooner it will improve”? Is Kais Saied the final nightmare Tunisia must endure after over sixty years of nominal independence from France? Will he ever be held accountable for his crimes against Tunisia, whether due to external influence, direct pressure, or his own ignorance and archaic mindset?
Only when Tunisia establishes a transparent government, prosecutes traitors openly, and drafts a truly civilized constitution based on citizenship, human rights, and a genuinely secular state, can we say Tunisia is on the right path. But for now, unfortunately, things are deteriorating rapidly, and people are only thinking about escaping the country by any means necessary. Those abroad have no desire to return.
So, let’s wait and see what happens in the coming years. However, one thing is clear: anyone hoping for good from Kais Saied is mistaken. He is part of the same corrupt system threatening Tunisia—he does not seek progress, freedom, or prosperity and has no intention of aligning Tunisia with modern civilization.
To conclude, I do not believe in conspiracy theories that the West is plotting against us. That idea is merely an excuse for our own failures. The truth is, the West does not conspire against us—they do not even need to. We conspire against ourselves. We are not a threat to them; we are just a piece on their geopolitical chessboard. They care about their own interests, not us. Their priority is ensuring we remain in a historical coma, as long as politicians and intellectuals within our countries actively work to destroy them—whether in the name of religion, nationalism, foreign ideologies, or sheer ignorance, as is the case with Kais Saied.
