Senegal: opponent Ousmane Sonko summoned to the gendarmerie following an accusation of rape
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Ousmane Sonko, Senegalese opponent, president of the PASTEF / the Patriots party.
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The Senegalese opponent is summoned this Monday, February 8 in the morning, for a case of rape with the use of a firearm.
He announces that he will not answer the investigators of the national gendarmerie and accuses the President of the Republic of wanting to silence him by all means.
The deputy is accused by a professional masseuse of having abused her on several occasions.
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With our correspondent in Dakar
,
Birahim Touré
"
I will not comply with any summons from the gendarmerie if the legal route is not respected!"
This is the position
of Ousmane Sonko
, 2019 presidential candidate and deputy of the National Assembly of Senegal.
He, in a statement to the press, gave elements of a response after a complaint for aggravated rape of a masseuse, filed on February 2.
Immunity
This complaint earned him a summons on Monday to the search brigade of the gendarmerie located in Colobane, Dakar.
A summons to which he cannot defer, because he enjoys parliamentary immunity
Third in the 2019 presidential election and presented as the leader of the opposition, Ousmane Sonko
specifically accuses the President of the Republic,
Macky Sall, of being behind what he calls a plot.
On the massage sessions hours after curfew, he explains that it is to relieve a back pain that he has been dragging for years, that he has set his sights on a legally recognized salon which is well established. street in an upscale district of Dakar.
Complaint
Ousmane Sonko also announces that he will file a complaint against his accuser while taking the opinion to witness.
He intends to fight tirelessly for the truth to emerge in this affair which he considers "
sordid
".
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