Juan Branco was arrested at the border between Senegal and Mauritania on Saturday, August 05, 2023. The lawyer was trying to reach Morocco to be able to embark towards France.
His disguise as a fisherman did not allow him to cross the police barriers in Mauritania territory by the coast guards of this country following a report from the Senegalese police. According to some indiscretions, the Franco-Spanish lawyer had to take another boat that was to take him to Morocco.
At the moment, he is in the hands of the police who will soon transfer him from the Multipurpose Intervention Brigade (BIP) and the Criminal Investigations Division ( DIC) on the instruction of the Director General of Police for his conduct in Dakar before being handed over to the Public Prosecutor.
