source: Nessma
actor1: Rioters (Tunisia)
actor2: Police Forces of Tunisia (2019-)
location: Ben Gardane
notes: On 17 October 2020, demonstrators barricaded roads with burning tires and threw stones at the security directorate in Ben Gardane (Medenine) to denounce the degradation of socio-economic conditions in the region after the closure of border transactions with Libya. Police forces fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. [size=no report]