Bah Diakhaté and Imam Cheikh Tidiane Ndao, arrested by the Dic, will be brought before the court today on charges of “spreading false news” and “offending a person exercising all or part of the prerogatives of the President of the Republic”. Namely Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko.

Bah Diakhaté and Imam Cheikh Tidiane Ndao will be presented to the public prosecutor today. After being questioned for 48 hours and 24 hours respectively, then taken into custody at the Criminal Investigation Division (Dic), they will be brought before the court on Wednesday.

For the preacher, actively sought by the police following his alleged remarks on Lgbtq+ against the Prime Minister after Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s controversial speech on homosexuality at Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar University, he was arrested early yesterday morning by the Dic. They were arrested for “spreading false news” and “offending a person exercising all or part of the prerogatives of the President of the Republic”. Does the Prime Minister enjoy the same protection as the President of the Republic under the notorious Article 80, which has sent many people to prison in recent years? For as long as anyone can remember, no one has been accused of the most recent offence.

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Without saying so, the public prosecutor alludes to the Prime Minister, who is said to have been the target of the posts made by the two people active on social networks. Is the Public Prosecutor’s Office consciously or unconsciously validating a form of two-headedness in the Executive, with President Diomaye and Prime Minister Sonko? In any case, it’s clear that the two people arrested are on their way to an investigation. Today, Abdou Karim Diop wants to police the social networks where evil has been woven in recent years, particularly during the “Mortal Kombat” where they were used as a weapon by supporters of the new regime.

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Lawyer Oumar Youm, former Minister of the Armed Forces, makes no secret of his desolation beyond his support for activist Bah Diakhaté, who was picked up at his home on Monday. Eh Allah!!! What’s this delusional offense? Let’s stop making fools of ourselves… Full support for Bah Diakhaté.  I said from the rostrum of the Assembly that our majority had no intention of decriminalizing homosexuality. Done! Now it’s up to the man who firmly promised to criminalize homosexuality to put his money where his mouth is. I only hope that this proposal will emerge very clearly from his Dpg (Declaration of General Policy). Everything else is a play (Sic)!”

By Justin GOMIS / justin@lequotidien.sn