Tunisian soccer participant Nizar Issaoui, 35, has died from burns suffered after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest towards “police injustice”, his household stated on Friday.
Issaoui, a former participant for top-flight facet US Monastir and a father of 4, printed a video on Facebook during which he stated the rationale for his protest was being falsely accused of terrorism in Haffouz, Kairouan, central Tunisia.
The striker, who was a free agent and taking part in within the beginner leagues earlier than his dying, suffered third-degree burns and docs weren’t in a position to save his life, his brother Ryad informed reporters.
Local media stated that Issaoui determined to make his excessive protest exterior a police station after officers accused him of “terrorism” when he complained in regards to the value of bananas.
A video selfie circulating on social media exhibits Issaoui screaming: “For a dispute with someone selling bananas at 10 dinars ($3.29), I get accused of terrorism at the police station. Terrorism for a complaint about bananas.”
Huge protests from the participant’s household have adopted, and numerous residents gathered in entrance of the police station the place the incident came about.
