The judge of investigation of the 1st cabinet has just placed Ousmane Sonko under warrant of deposit, thus following the heavy indictment of the prosecutor for article 169, Monday, July 31, 2023.
Ousmane Sonko, arrested last Friday, at his home in Dakar, on the order of the prosecutor, was presented today Monday to the dean of judges who awarded him a warrant of deposit.
Indeed, the prosecution had listed 7 charges, including the call for insurrection, association of criminals in connection with a terrorist company, attack on state security, conspiracy against state authority, acts and maneuvers to compromise public security, theft.
The leader of Pastef on hunger strike against «oppression and persecution» of which he is a victim, will thus spend his first night in prison.
As a reminder, Ousmane Sonko is in fact accused of having taken to task, Friday, July 28, a gendarme by forcibly confiscating his mobile phone while the latter filmed him in front of his home in the city Keur Gorgui, on his return from the mosque after Friday prayer. He was arrested at his home by members of the GIGN, the intervention group of the national gendarmerie.
The leader of the African Patriots Party of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (Pastef) himself, on social networks just before his interpellation, explained that he had «snatched» this phone and asked the person to unlock it to erase the images taken, which she would have refused: “Back from the Friday prayer, the general intelligence officers posted in front of my home 24 hours a day began to film me. I personally snatched the phone and asked the person to unlock it and erase the images she took, which she refused.”
“Currently, a strong gendarmerie team is watching my home as you can see and seems to want to break down the door. I also recall that these same SDF stole property consisting of four mobile phones, a MacBook Pro computer, my weapon with authorization, a suitcase containing clothes and a sum of two million CFA francs during my kidnapping in Koungheul. I ask the people to stand ready to face these endless abuses.”
Back from the Friday prayer, the general intelligence agents posted outside my home 24 hours a day started filming me.
I personally snatched the phone and asked the person to unlock it and erase the images they took.
