As Tunisians take a battering, ram fighting is their escape

Amid lack of jobs, high prices and deteriorating state services, ‘this lets us get away from our cares’, says ram owner

20 June 2021 - 18:18 By Angus McDowall

The rams stamped in the dust and charged, butting horns with a crash that drew roars from the crowd on a dusty waste ground near the Old City of Tunis, where young men on the margins of society rear animals to fight...

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