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Tunisian football fans stage mass exit to Italy over club row

By AFP
13 November 2020   |   12:03 pm
Around 300 Tunisian football fans, who have threatened for weeks to emigrate to Italy in protest over sanctions against their club, board fishing boats and head out to sea.

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