According to Maître Diouf, the master of prosecutions decided to place Bougane Guèye Dany in pretrial detention.
“The leader of the Guemm Sa Bopp movement will be tried in flagrante delicto on October 30,” he told journalists.
Mr. Guèye had been taken into custody on Saturday in Bakel (east) for refusing to comply, while he was going to visit the populations affected by the flooding of the Senegal River, according to a press release from the national gendarmerie.
"This Saturday, October 19, 2024, at around 1:40 p.m., the Bakel Territorial Gendarmerie Brigade arrested Mr. Bougane Guèye Dany for refusing to comply," she said.
She explained that it was at the Bondji gendarmerie station that his procession was stopped by the gendarmes who notified him that he "had to make a temporary stop for security reasons." He had to "let the convoy of (...) Mr. President of the Republic pass" in order to then be able to "continue on his way after the authorities had left."
According to the same source, the leader of Geum Sa Bopp, a member of the Samm Sa Kaddu coalition for the legislative elections of November 17, “categorically refused to comply with the instructions of the Gendarmes” and “decided to force the roadblock, inviting the rest of the procession to follow him”.
She added that the commander of the Bakel gendarmerie company “called in a platoon of the Surveillance and Intervention Squadron (ESI) as reinforcements to intercept the convoy at the Tourime bridge, a village located 12 km from Bondji, on the road to Bakel.
According to the press release, “the unit commander had Mr. Bougane Guèye Dany arrested for refusing to comply”. “He was immediately taken to the territorially competent judicial police officer at the Bakel gendarmerie brigade”, the document concludes.
Source (APS)
