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February 9th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Tunisian security forces have arrested a suspect in the killing of opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi in July 2013.
Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman, Mohamed Ali Aroui, said the suspect, identified as Hmed al-Melki, was one of four people arrested following an exchange of gunfire in a house near the capital, Tunis, overnight Saturday.
Aroui did not reveal the identities of the three others detained in the operation.
On February 4, the Tunisian government announced that the country’s National Guard had killed the alleged assassin of another lawmaker, Chokri Belaid.
Both Belaid and Brahmi were assassinated outside their homes in the capital in February and July last year respectively.
The assassinations were attributed to Tunisia’s Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group operating in the country. The group never claimed responsibility for the killings.
Since last year, Tunisian authorities have cracked down on Salafist groups in the country.
On December 30, 2013, Ansar al-Sharia leader, Seifallah Ben Hassine, was arrested in Libya after a Tunisian court ordered an international warrant for his arrest.
At least 200 people including the supporters of the group were arrested last May following clashes between security forces and Salafists in a suburb of the capital.
The Ansar al-Sharia is one of the militant groups formed after the Tunisian revolution in 2011. The Tunisian government declared the group a terrorist organization earlier this year.
Tunisia, the birthplace of pro-democracy protests across North Africa and the Middle East, has been struggling with a democratic changeover since the overthrow of its Western-backed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
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