The story of how he started the First World War is known: the driver of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand left his route wrong street in Sarajevo, and accidentally found the activist Gavrilo Princip, who took the opportunity to kill him. Possibly have been a war anyway, but this occurred because the circumstances, far and near, converged all together on 28 June 1914. On December 17, 2010 Mohamed Buazizi (Bouazizi, transcribed into French), 26, left his modest house in the village of Sidi Buzid of 40,000 inhabitants, in the dusty heart of Tunis, with his trolley full fruit and vegetables to sell in the market, as had been done since the age of ten. I was worried because he had a debt, an astronomical amount of 180 euros, and thought I would never achieve the dream of his life: a van to stop having to pull cart. So I had to sell their merchandise on and off.
Once in the market, little was presented with a municipal inspector, Faida Hamdi, 45, who confiscated his fruits and vegetables do not have permission to sell in order. Other sellers say, in the village there are three possibilities in this case: running away, abandoning your merchandise, pay the official fine, equivalent to several days collection, or reach an unofficial agreement with the inspectors. In other words, bribery. Mohamed decided that day, where to look you, I would not do any of the three. When he tried to avoid being cogieran apples, the inspectorate for slapped him. According to witnesses, he also spat upon him and knocked the truck scales, and inspection assistants beat him.
Mohamed, who according to his own sister has never been either an angel or a selfless martyr, got angry, went to the municipal office a few blocks away and demanded the return of his things. He turned to shake. Then he went to the regional government, where this time he hit, but yes he was told that odd. And to see the governor in person, even less. No one paid attention when he said: "As I see, I light my fire." Less than an hour after the start of the incident, at half past eleven, Mohamed returned with a couple of bottles of paint thinner is poured them over, asked for the last time to see the governor, and set himself on fire as he said he would. Severely burned ninety percent of the body. The local hospital was little they could do for him, and took him to the nearest big city, Sfax.
Meanwhile, half the town gathered outside the government building, where police exacerbated the problem rather than solve it. Five days later, during a demonstration on the same site, a 22 year old man committed suicide by electrocution, while shouting "No to misery! Not to stop!". The protests, spurred by the Internet, began to rise across the country. The police opened fire on demonstrators, causing even more deaths.
to all this, Muhammad had not died. Seeing that it was becoming a symbol, it led to the best hospital in the country, in the capital, and the president of the nation's visit, all contrite. Eventually died on January 4, eighteen days after the incident. His funeral was crowded. The following weekend, twenty-four people died in police firing during protests over. The president fled the country, and instead of their photos, people began to take pictures of Mohamed. The rest you know: the revolt spread to four other countries, where more people as well, perhaps also called Mohamed, has been living in the same way as him.
has now become a martyr, and that reality can be distorted a bit, but today it is more difficult to brew controls, at least while there are those who keep asking questions. For example, somewhere was said that Mohamed was a university degree in computer science, making history in the typical lack of opportunities even for people amply prepared that strives to outdo itself. In fact, Mohamed left school at age 14.
also really, though it has inspectors from life (mention of corruption in the country have appeared in the filtered cables WikiLeaks), Mohamed just jumped the fuse is the day when he hit a woman a cake in public, so his days of anger probably had more to do with that than with other things. That does not mean, obviously, to accept the reality of the lives of many people in many countries were bad enough to have reached the same result by another route, and if a cake is causing a revolution is coming to be seen.
And indeed, the villain of the case was until now a symbol of progress: a world single male and a job "man" has ended up in jail "for their own protection." Meanwhile, is preparing a film about Mohammed, a Kuwaiti has offered ten thousand dollars for your truck, and said that a place in Paris could carry his name.
As Manuel Vicent said today in 'El Pais Semanal', "in ancient tyrants were overthrown by hitting a shot. Now the shot you've got to give you and the most we get is that the tyrant change the country taking a ton and a half of gold. "
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