Bouazizi
160 x 75 cm, © 2012,
€ 160,00
Two-dimensional | Painting | Spray
On display at Arab Spring in Catholic Church
Bouazizi, the Jasmine-hero of Tunisia!
Recently gratuated this boy (Mohamed Bouazizi, 26) started his own fruitshop as alternative source for income. After the corrupt police destroyed his shop again due the lack of some fake paperwork he couldn't take it no more and set himself on fire at the police headquarters!
This amazing deed of dispear created the uprise of the people in Tunisia a.k.a. The Jasmine Revolution on 17th of December 2010. He died on the 4th of Januari 2011 but President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled towards Saoudi Arab on 14th of Januari 2011(!). The flame of Revolution lit up more countries and the Arabic Spring began