They also said they would cancel all their holiday packages to Tunisia for at least the next week. Blood on the beach.
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Hundreds of shocked tourists have been leaving for home since Friday’s attack, but some holidaymakers said they had chosen to stay.
The two are accused of helping Rezgui with his attack on defenceless tourists by providing weapons and offering advice on logistics.
And in southeastern France, Yassine Salhi, 35, a truck deliveryman with a history of ties to Islamic extremists, allegedly beheaded his employer and rammed a delivery truck into a U.S.-owned chemical warehouse.
A suicide bomber targeted a mosque in Kuwait, killing 27 people and wounding 227 people. In that incident, 52 people were killed.
The so-called “Islamic State“, known as Daesh in the Middle East, claimed responsibility for the massacre and has called for more attacks throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends on July 17.
The Sousse attacker, who had shown little sign of radicalisation by Islamist recruiters, was shot dead by police outside the hotel.
According to Tunisia’s interior minister, the attack was carried out by a student from the city of Kairouan, located roughly 60 kilometers west of Sousse.
Studying at university, the gunman was involved in a few organizations on campus that are being investigated for ties to the attack.
“We have to support these people”, Kelly said. “There was no terrorism when Tunisia was a dictatorship”. Targeting tourists and sparing Tunisians, Saif Rezgui shot his way through the hotel, leaving bodies on the beach, before he was killed by the police.
With tourism providing a major source of income and employment in Tunisia, the government is also looking at economic ways of aiding the industry, with plans to end a visitors’ tax and review debt relief for hotel operators.
Essid added that Al Rezgui could have used social media and online tools to prepare him for attack.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi admitted in an interview broadcast on Tuesday that the country was not prepared for the beach massacre. “But we must act to guarantee the security of the tourist sector”, he said. “I am sure the whole House will join me in sending our deepest condolences to the families and friends of all those who have lost loved ones”.
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a national moment of silence to be held in honor of British tourists slain at a beach resort Tunisia.
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Tunisia’s Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli thanked Britain’s Home Secretary Theresa May, her French counterpart and the other officials who had flocked to his side in solidarity after the attack.
