"This is the first time I have entered the water in months. It is the best feeling in the world!" At dawn, and in the heat wave, I celebrated the reopening of the beaches in Tunisia after two months of confinement.
If at the beginning of April, when the first containment measures were decreed to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, the closure of the beaches had neither shocked nor disappointed unduly, it is because the temperatures of both water and air remained fresh.
But with the start of deconfinement in recent weeks, and the scorching heat of the past few days, some Tunisians did not wait for the green light from the authorities to take a dip.
Last weekend, hundreds of people defied the rules on the beaches of Nabeul to have the pill brown and cool off in the Mediterranean on beaches without lifeguards.