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Ansar al-Sharia movement has been tagged a terrorist group by the Tunisia government.
According to BBC reports, the Tunisia government is accusing the hardline group of killing of two secular politicians.
PM Ali Larayedh said he had proof it was behind the killings of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, which plunged Tunisia into political turmoil.
"Anyone belonging to it must face judicial consequences," he added.
"We have discovered proof that the Ansar group is responsible for the assassinations of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi and the attacks at Mount Chaambi," Prime Minister Larayedh told reporters on Tuesday.
Larayedh also said the group was supporting an armed jihadist cell, which the Tunisian army has been hunting for months in the remote Mount Chaambi region along the Algerian border.
Ansar leader Seif Allah Ibn Hussein, also known as Abu Iyadh, is currently in hiding after an arrest warrant was issued for allegedly inciting an attack on the US embassy in Tunis in September 2012, which killed four people.