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Tunisia probes political commentator over comments on TV show

Technicians wait on the set before the broadcast news. [AFP]

A Tunisian court has opened an investigation into a political commentator after she made comments on television about the state of the country, lawyers and local media said Friday.

During a show on the Carthage Plus TV channel on Tuesday, Sonia Dahmani responded to another pundit's claim that sub-Saharan migrants were seeking to settle in Tunisia.

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