Tunis, Tunisia · 1988
Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir
Palestinian Fatah co-founder and PLO military commander Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) was killed by Israeli commandos in a Mossad-led raid on his home in Tunis on 16 April 1988.
True crime cases in Tunisia
5case filesUpdated Jul 7, 2026
Casepin holds 5 case files in Tunisia. By legal status, 5 marked solved.
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Credit: YamenCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenBardo National Museum, Tunis, Tunisia · 2015
Bardo National Museum attack
On 18 March 2015, two gunmen attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, killing 21 people at the scene—mostly European tourists—and injuring around 50 others; a further victim died ten days later. Tunisian security forces killed both attackers, later identified as Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui.
Credit: Credits to Mourad Ben Abdallah / Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenEl Ghriba Synagogue, Djerba, Tunisia · 2023
2023 Djerba synagogue shooting
On May 9, 2023, a Tunisian National Guardsman killed five people—including a colleague, two Jewish pilgrims, and two police officers—in a premeditated attack near the El Ghriba Synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, before being shot dead by security forces.
Credit: StegopCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenEl Ghriba Synagogue, Djerba, Tunisia · 2002
Ghriba synagogue bombing
On 11 April 2002, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden gas truck outside the ancient El Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, killing 19 people — 14 German tourists, three Tunisians, and two French nationals — and wounding more than 30 others.
SOLVEDListenPort El Kantaoui, near Sousse, Tunisia · 2015
2015 Sousse attacks
On 26 June 2015, a gunman attacked tourists at a beach resort in Port El Kantaoui near Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38 people, 30 of them British, in the deadliest non-state attack in modern Tunisian history.
Case files in Tunisia
The files run from 1988 to 2023. The 2010s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir, from 1988.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (4), mass shooting cases (3) and kidnapping and abduction cases (1).
None of these files has creator coverage attached yet; each one can still be heard as a narrated case file.
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Bardo National Museum attack Memorial Mosaic 07 — Credit: YamenCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Ghriba — Credit: Credits to Mourad Ben Abdallah / Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Ghriba-stegop-02 — Credit: StegopCC BY-SA 3.0Source
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How many case files in Tunisia are on Casepin?
5. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
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Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir, from 1988. Open the file
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