Tunisia PM fires six police officials after Bardo attack

TUNIS: Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid fired six police commanders on Monday, including the head of tourist security, after a militant attack on the national museum last week in which 20 tourists were killed.
The premier’s office spokesman, Mofdi Mssedi said the six also included an intelligence brigade chief, the Tunis district police chief, the traffic police commander, a Bardo security chief and a commander for the capital’s Sidi Bachir district.
“Prime Minister Habib Essid visited the Bardo Museum yesterday...and took note of several security failures there,” Mssedi said.
Militant gunmen killed 20 foreign tourists, including Japanese, Polish, Italian and Spanish visitors, last Wednesday as they got off buses at the Bardo Museum, inside the Parliament compound that is normally heavily guarded.
It was the worst attack in more than a decade in Tunisia, testing the country’s young democracy four years after the revolt that overthrew Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.