Souha Arafat: la machine à rumeurs s’est mise en branle
Suite à la décision du président Ben Ali de déchoir Souha Arafat de la nationalité tunisienne, et face au silence assourdissant des médias tunisiens et des autorités officielles, la machine à rumeurs s’est mise en branle.
Le Belfast Telegraph (ici), vient de publier un article intitulé : ”Sex and shopping: new twist in the saga of Mrs Arafat” sur les rumeurs entourant toute cette affaire. On apprends entre autres :
”Mrs Arafat, 44, who has lived in Tunis since her husband’s death in November 2004, is now reportedly in Malta after persistent but unconfirmed claims that she had secretly married Lahasn al-Trabulsi, the brother-in-law of the Tunisian President.”
”A terse bulletin in the official Tunisian Gazette earlier this month – not reported in the local media and giving no reason for what is a rare act by the Tunisian bureaucracy – said that “Tunisian nationality was withdrawn from Madam Suha Arafat… who was born in Al Quds [Jerusalem] on 17 July 1963.”
”Various blogs and websites have reported since last summer that Mrs Arafat had married the brother of her reportedly close friend Leila, wife of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, though Mrs Arafat, who lived in an up-market house in the Tunisian capital’s Carthage district, has denied the story. ”
”According to one predictable version of the rumour, Mr Trabulsi had been expected to marry Suha Arafat’s sister but was attracted by the fortune which Mrs Arafat secured in fraught negotiations with Palestinian leaders as Mr Arafat lay dying in a coma in a Paris hospital. ”
”Another unconfirmed local report said that the reason for her departure in Tunisia was a dispute with her business partners. ”
