The main actor of the video that is circulating on social networks today is an Islamic extremist - a killer who "cruises" the beach in the Tunisian resort of Sousse and chooses his victims, and then bloodied bodies after the attack in which, three days ago, 38 people, mostly foreign tourists, were killed.
Intermittent gunfire can be heard in an 11-minute amateur video recorded by a Tunisian with his mobile phone, AFP reported.
"It's him, he's wearing shorts! There he is! He's coming!", people can be heard shouting in Arabic on the video, many of whom are probably hotel employees and lifeguards.
The cameraman of that amateur video hid behind a wall and filmed the killer, who has been identified as 23-year-old Tunisian student Sejfedin Rezgi, as he walked along the beach of the Rio Imperial Marhaba hotel complex and selected his victims, then followed him from a distance and filmed the bloody bodies of the murdered tourists as they sunbathed on the beach.
"Why did you kill those people. Why," states the Tunisian, then a group of people can be heard shouting on the video: "Come, come. Police. Hey, police."
The silhouette of the black-clad killer is then seen walking calmly along the beach as the cameraman finds more bodies lying on the sand and utters: "Oh my God".
Then the "amateur cameraman" joins several other Tunisians and together they run after the killer shouting: "Get him, get him!"
Local media and witnesses confirmed that Rezgi was killed by police, but the scene was not shown on the amateur video, the bloodiest attack on a jihadist in Tunisian history for which Islamic State claimed responsibility.
AFP reports that Tunisian authorities have admitted that Rezgi was not their target of interest as a potential terrorist threat and that they had no indication that he might be planning such an attack.
"He was unknown to our services. His family environment is normal," interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Arui confirmed to the private television channel El Hivar Etunsi, which called the killer a "mysterious terrorist" in its report.
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