Attack in Port El Kantaoui in 2015

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The attack in Port El Kantaoui occurred on June 26, 2015 in Port El Kantaoui in Tunisia , about ten kilometers north of the city of Sousse , Sousse Governorate , on the Gulf of Hammamet . 39 people including the assassin were killed.

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The Taj Marhaba & Bellevue Park ( Erioll world.svg) hotels of the RIU Hotels & Resorts chain and the neighboring El Mouradi Palm Marina ( Erioll world.svg) hotel of the El Mouradi Hotels chain were affected .

An assassin shot on the beach in front of the Hotel Taj Marhaba with an AK 47 , which he had previously hidden in a parasol, and then threw several hand grenades in the direction of the swimming pool and in the hotel's management offices. Among the dead tourists were 30 British , one Belgian and at least one German . Tunisian employees of the Hotel Bellevue (RIU) formed a human chain to keep the assassin away from the tourists.

The report of a Tunisian investigation into the attack, published in early February 2017, attributed a significant proportion of the high casualties to the failure of the National Guard and police. Thus, the squad leader was an armed two-man teams in the National Guard, which arrived first, at the scene in impotence as the assassin threw a dysfunctional hand grenade. The other National Guard then took off his uniform shirt so as not to become the attacker's target himself. The police unit, which should have been on site within three minutes, ignored the instructions to move out, according to the police chief of Sousse, and only arrived after thirty minutes.

Only after 35 minutes did the police find the perpetrator; According to initial information, he was killed by two gunshots, but according to a report by the Tunisian authorities in February 2017, his body had 20 gunshot wounds. It was also proven that the attacker was under the influence of an aggression-increasing drug at the time of the crime.

nationality dead Injured total Ref.
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 30th 24 54
IrelandIreland Ireland 3 3
TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1 (assassin) 7th 8th
BelgiumBelgium Belgium 1 3 4th
GermanyGermany Germany 2 2
PortugalPortugal Portugal 1 1
RussiaRussia Russia 1 1
UkraineUkraine Ukraine 1 1
Unknown 1 3 4th
total 39 39 78

The alleged perpetrator was Seifeddine Yacoubi alias Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani, born in 1992 in Gaâfour and enrolled at Kairouan University since 2014 . Previously, he had not appeared in connection with Islamist-motivated acts.

context

Other suspected Islamist attacks occurred on the same day in France, Somalia and Kuwait. The attack on the Imam Jafar as Sādiq mosque in Kuwait City is believed to have killed more than 25 people. A person was murdered in the attack in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier .

The next day the terrorist organization Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in Tunisia and Kuwait in an unauthenticated message on Twitter .

There had been attacks on tourists in Tunisia in the months and years before, namely the attack on the Al-Ghriba Synagogue in 2002 and the attack on the National Museum in Tunis in 2015. On October 30, 2013, an attempted assassination of the hotel Riadh Palms in Sousse; an assassin was subsequently arrested in time at the grave of former President Habib Bourguiba in Monastir .

Reactions

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel condoled the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi . Locals donated blood for the injured in Tunisian hospitals .

TUI brought back some of the German vacationers from Tunisia. Of around 3,500 German TUI guests in Tunisia during the attack, 250 broke off their vacation prematurely.

See also

Individual evidence

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