“What’s essential now is to really take action,” French-language daily Le Quotidien wrote, including more controls at mosques “under the influence of uncontrollable religious fanatics”.
Le Temps called for “urgent draconian measures” and withdrawing Tunisian citizenship from “terrorists who pledge allegiance to the enemy”.
Authorities say as many as 3,000 Tunisians have gone to Iraq, Syria and Libya to join IS and other jihadist groups, raising fears of returning battle-hardened militants plotting attacks.
Essebsi said there are “sleeper cells” that must be identified.
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