In Senegal, Ousmane Sonko returned to the conditions of his defamation trial on March 16, 2023, in Dakar. In a video on social networks, the opponent denounces an “attack on his physical integrity” during his trip to the court that day and accuses Senegalese President Macky Sall of using a “strategy of terror to eliminate political opponents.
Ousmane Sonko made a statement on the night of March 20 to 21, 2023, after the clashes that occurred on March 16 in Dakar and a very tense political climate. Amid a standoff with power, the opponent, hospitalized for 4 days, denounces an “attack on his physical integrity” during his journey to the court where his defamation trial was to be held against the Minister of Tourism Mame Mbaye Niang. He reiterates his call for “resistance”.
In a sweatshirt, on a clinic bed, the leader of the African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics, and Fraternity (Pastef) spoke in Wolof, then in French, on his social networks.
The opponent says “get better”. He reaffirms having been “brutalized” on Thursday, on the way to the courthouse: “The police officers sprayed me with extremely toxic liquid which produces effects both on the respiratory system, on the eyes, and my skin, then at the level of the digestive tract. The clothes were sent out of the country for analysis. ยป