The leader of the Pastef party has largely returned, through a memorandum on his legal files, to the violent demonstrations of 2021 and 2023 and Macky’s management of the country. A press conference of the Political Bureau of the Pastef party yesterday was an opportunity to present the memorandum whose title is « Light on the violence of the State of Senegal against the populations after the judicial decision of June 1, 2023 », drawn up by Ousmane Sonko to « deny the accusations in the white paper produced by the government to hold them responsible for the bloody events » that took place from June 1, just after the verdict handed down by the Criminal Chamber sentencing Sonko to 2 years in prison for corruption of youth in the trial opposing him to the ex-masseuse Adji Sarr.

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By Amadou MBODJI / ambodji@lequotidien.sn 

  • Translation by Ndey T. SOSSEH