By RFIPosted on 22-01-2020Modified on 22-01-2020 at 01:56

In Senegal, the new request for provisional release of activist Guy Marius Sagna was rejected on Tuesday. Two other activists arrested at the same time are free. The leader of the “Frapp-France Dégage” movement was arrested at the end of November during a prohibited demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Dakar.

Anger for the supporters of Guy Marius Sagna. For them, the judges' decision to keep him in detention, while freeing his comrades, is a sign that he is disturbing.

“ The masks have fallen, from the start the scheme was clear, it was to muzzle Guy Marius Sagna, especially for his pan-African commitment. This is what actually wobbles power. Two weights, two measures, what is that ? We are all Guy ”, comments rapper Thiat of the movement“ Y'en a Marre ”.

Guy Marius Sagna no longer counts his stays in prison . Regularly arrested, the social worker is on all fronts: against " imperialism " he says, the CFA francs or bad governance.

“It all started from the mismanagement of Senegalese hospitals and up to the EPAs, the Economic Partnership Agreements, fighting alongside the oppressed people, and quite a few other struggles… even we are lost at some point. In any case, thanks to him, the Frapp platform has become the platform for Senegalese demands ”, explains Daouda Togola of the Frapp movement (Front for a popular and pan-African anti-imperialist revolution).

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Her name is chanted in recent demonstrations against the rise in the price of electricity, and an activist interrupted a speech by President Macky Sall, a few days ago, in London, shouting: " Free Guy Marius Sagna!" "

But on the power side, we minimize. " It does not represent many people, " said an executive of the presidential party. " It is a provocateur ", " which seeks to make buzz " and " carries out fights which it does not control ".

The presidential party APR has also excluded one of its members, Moustapha Diakhaté. This former minister adviser to the president, very critical lately on the management of power, had just launched his own current within the party.

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