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The arrest was reported by the Tunisian authorities yesterday evening Monday, 21 February.
On the basis of enquiries, El-Mestiri, a 44 year Tunisian, employed as a handyman at the Salesian school in Manouba, has received a sum of 2 thousand dinar, about a thousand euro, three months ago from Fr Rybinski, to buy material for some maintenance work to be undertaken in the school. However, he did not purchase the material and afraid of being found out killed Fr Rybinski.
According to the official enquiry, the circumstances of the crime indicate that on the day of the murder, the accused asked Fr Marek Rybinski to go to the store-room in which the body was then found. The killer had taken the Salesian by surprise and stabbed him in the back of the neck and in the throat causing his death.
The Tunisian Minister of the Interior, in denouncing the cowardly attack, expressed his own appreciation for the fact that there was no sign of any political or religious involvement in the crime.
Published 22/02/2011
