As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader Moncef Marzouki, the first to be democratically elected after the fall of longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, about what the revolution achieved.
On 17 December 2010, in the city of Sidi Bouzid, a young street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of the regional government headquarters after police confiscated his goods.
