First of all, I'd like to thank the co-founders Habib and Yamen for getting back to our report after this long period. I assume this would've taken so much time and energy but I appreciate that you prioritised our Wikimedia Community health.
I'd like to draw the attention of all the members to the fact that the members who complained are "Active Wikimedians" that happens to be Carthagina members as well. I believe this doesn't make their complaints less important or less credible.
Let's be clear about something, the suspension of Mounir's membership is not only related to Carthagina as a partner organisation. May I remind all of you that when I informed you of our decision (attached pdf), I also informed you all in this mailing list of my concerns as a Wikimedian about some of Mounir's behaviour. It took him more than two weeks to get back to Habib with an answer that I qualify as non-serious.
On my capacity as Carthagina's president, along with the Human Resources Responsible Jamel Ben Saidane, we contacted Mounir Touzri couple of weeks before our decision to address him privately the reported issues from Zeineb and Afek and the endorsing complaint by other Carthaginers/Wikimedians i.e Sami and Issam. He didn't take it seriously neither.
The decision that we took, as a community, wasn't based on couple of emails or only complaints. It came after months of calls back and forth with Mounir and the other affected members. It came after several reported incidents.
Dear Mounir, it's not Afek who 'betrayed you'! May I remind you of how many times you called me since Zeineb was accepted to attend WikiIndaba (when none of the community applied except her and Youssef Ben Hadj Yahia). You kept nagging and complaining about her attendance. You escalated the nagging when our WM community agreed to send her to the GLAM meeting as the only interested GLAM working member ?! May I remind you as well what I told you back then; and I have to talk here about the internal work of Carthagina: Zeineb is the responsible member of the GLAM project and the partnership between Carthagina and the Diocesan Library; at that time she was covering the Library's Director Fr Marc who went on a mission to Brussels. The decision that was taken in Carthagina was that Zeineb would prioritise of course the Library and Carthagina's work upon her volunteer work on the GLAM project which would be on hold until she could handle the situation.
Zeineb was one of the most devoted members in Carthagina to coordinate with you our joint work (i.e WLM, WLA, and other workshops...). Your reaction toward this collaboration was one of the issues addresses! That made us want to review our work with you.
If you think she didn't do enough effort, I'm afraid that the different committees that accepted her applications to attend the different conferences don't share the same view as you.
You even confirmed to Jamel and myself that you wanted to delete some of her GLAM work on purpose because she was using the WM camera and didn't want to send it to you.
Calling someone constantly is a hassle, yelling on him at the phone is disrespectful and not acceptable. Calling other members to devalue her work and insult her is definitely considered as gossiping. I hope you still remember that you did it.
That behaviour is never accepted, first under the Wikimedia Friend Space Policy, second within Carthagina as you were addressing to different members, and a founding member, the Secretary General in the frame of a joint project.
As a team in Carthagina, we are transparent, we behave and care about eachothers wellbeing. This is what led everyone to report the buylling. Nobody wants this to happen to a teammate neither to him one day.
As for Influencing the vote, you should know that more than any new member to our WM community that you must not be reaching out to people on and off-line to recommend anyone. For some people you were their trainer one day and this would influence their decision, not saying about asking to vote for a specific person. Sending out candidacy info to mailing lists or sharing it on social media without naming a particular person is not influencing. I can remind you personally how Asaf Bartov warnned you once on FB to not ask people to vote for a specific picture during the WLA community award.
It also surprises me that you deny that Afek told you about her project idea months ago! She was open about it (as anyone in this community) and asked for help to make it happen.
I'd be interested as well to read your accusations toward Zeineb, as I previously sent you when reaching out before taking our decision.
To the community, and the co-founders, I'd like to highlight again that our decision toward Mounir was voted unanimously by Carthagina's Board of Trustees, Board of Advisors, Executive team, Members and Members-Observers. I am attaching as well the statement released by our Legal Advisor endorsing our decision.
Finally, I say it again, it wasn't easy to take this decision in our community. Mounir's work and collaboration were never undervalued but his behaviour toward our members led us to this tough decision.
Cordially
Emna