INVESTIGATION - Tunisia's president now rivals his predecessor, the late dictator Ben Ali, in terms of the number of opponents his judicial police worry about. Politicians, activists, human rights defenders, trade unionists, business leaders, journalists: the list is long.

Since President Kaïs Saïed imprisoned all his opponents in Tunis, Mouhieddine Cherbib and Kamel Jendoubi have relaunched the activities of the Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l'homme en Tunisie (Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia) in Paris. They set up the CRLDHT in 1996 as political exiles in France, with the aim of defending those imprisoned by the dictator Ben Ali. The 2011 revolution enabled them to return to their homeland. Kamel Jendoubi even chaired the body responsible for supervising the elections to the Tunisian Constituent Assembly. But after ten years of going back and forth between the two shores of the Mediterranean, these two Franco-Tunisians were once again assigned to reside in their adopted country.

Like them, a large number of Tunisians have returned to exile in Paris. As in Ben Ali's time, this microcosm of secularists and Islamists converse on the encrypted Signal application, helping each other out and getting together. Admittedly, the bodies have aged, the ink on the "ronéos"...