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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who served as the second President of Tunisia from to...
Secret audio sheds light on toppled dictator’s frantic last hours
The BBC has obtained extraordinary recordings which we believe to be of phone calls made by former Tunisian dictator, president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, as he flew out of the country in 2011.
The authoritarian drift is accompanied by nostalgia for ex-President Ben Ali's misrule.
These final moments show how his authority crumbled, sealing the fate of his 23-year dictatorship and sparking the region's wave of pro-democracy Arab Spring uprisings.
The recordings - obtained by BBC News Arabic Documentaries - have been forensically analysed by audio experts who found no evidence of tampering or manipulation.
Ben Ali died in exile in 2019, but the BBC has also played these recordings to people who know the individuals concerned, and they believe the voices to be genuine, further supporting the authenticity of the recordings. However some of the people concerned strongly dispute their veracity.