Official visit by Martin SCHULZ, EP President to Tunisia. &nbsp;Meeting with students of the University of Sousse: Tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack (26/06/2015) and&nbsp;statements

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SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

MBAREK, Sonia (TN)

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Official visit by Martin SCHULZ, EP President to Tunisia: Meeting with students of the University of Sousse, tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack (26/06/2015) and statements

Exterior of hotel meeting venue, (1 shot)

Meeting with students from the University of Sousse (10 shots)

Exterior of the Imperial Merhaba Hotel, site of the Sousse terrorist attacks (26/06/2015)

EP President Martin SCHULZ arrives and is welcomed at the Imperial Merhaba Hotel, site of the Sousse terrorist attacks (26/06/2015)

Visit of the hotel and tribute to the victims together with Fathi BDIRA, Governor of Sousse and Zohra DRISS, Member of the Tunisian parliament and owner of the hotel owner  (3 shots)

Looking at sign saying &lsquo;Tribute to the staff for its courage and heroism during the tragic event of the 26.06.2015. (3 shots)

Sign on the beach saying &lsquo;In Memoriam &ndash; this plaque is dedicated to all the guests who lost their lives in the terrorist attack at the Imperial Merhaba Hotel on June 26th, 2015.&rsquo; (2 shots)

EP President SHULZ giving statements to the press (2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President: I am here to express not only our condolences once more with the relatives of the victims and families, but alsoo to show our solidarity with the people here, with the city of Sousse, with the people who used to work in tourism, to live with the tourists here, and looking to the reality here that more or less nothing happens for the being in the region, which is depending entirely from tourism.

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President: We need courage and to show the terrorists that your strategy to create fear will fail. Therefore I must admit that the will not only of the public forces, especially of the ordinary people, of the employees, of the shops here, to ensure the security of their clients of their guests is very impressive.

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President: Therefore I hope that in the foreseeable time all the restrictions and the measures taken to ensure the security, and therefore to prevent people to come here will be lifted.

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President: Tunisian-Libyan borders are in a region of risk and destabilisation. My feeling is that the security here is exceptionally high.

Cutaways from press point to local press (2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (French), Zohra DRISS, Member of the Tunisian parliament and owner of the hotel: The day of the attack the hotel was occupied to 80 percent, there were 627 guests, and today as you can see the hotel is closed, everything is wrapped up, closed.

SOUNDBITE (French),Zohra DRISS, Member of the Tunisian parliament and owner of the hotel: As long as there are restrictions from the British market, from the Belgian market and even other markets that haven&rsquo;t decreed any restrictions but that are shy to come here, as long as there are no guests, we cannot open.

Shots of closed down hotel, lobby chairs wrapped in plastic, deserted pool and empty beach (6 shots)