Athletics: Lamine Diack soon back in Senegal?
Lamine Diack, former Senegalese boss of international athletics, is still in France.
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Lamine Diack, the former president of the International Athletics Federation, stranded in France for five years, could soon be back home.
He was sentenced to four years in prison for his involvement in a corruption network dedicated to hiding doping cases in Russia.
A second case on the attribution of the Olympic Games Rio-2016 and Tokyo-2020 is underway.
However, his ban on leaving the country was lifted at the end of December.
A “Lamine Diack Collective” has just launched a fundraising campaign in recent days to raise the sum of the necessary deposit.
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Théa Ollivier
The 500,000 euros deposit required to lift Lamine Diack's ban on leaving the country has not yet been met.
A "
very large
"
sum
, comments his lawyer Me William Bourdon who welcomes this decision all the same.
The defense had repeatedly requested that Lamine Diack be able to return to his country.
A request finally accepted at the end of December.
According to his lawyers, this is explained by the first judicial review which fell after
the judgment of last September
, and because the investigation of the second case is practically completed.
Me Simon Ndiaye, another lawyer for Lamine Diack, specifies that the age - 87 years - and the fragile health of his client also played a role.
But the Senegalese who is accused of corruption has no visibility on his return until he has raised the necessary sum.
The Lamine Diack Collective, chaired by Majib Sène, therefore launched a fundraising campaign.
“
I don't know the financial situation of this family
,” he says.
My duty is to participate in any action likely to promote the release of Lamine Diack.
And as this return is conditioned by the payment of this deposit, the family has launched an appeal for solidarity, and we subscribe to this idea.
World Athletics (formerly the International Athletics Federation) did not wish to react.
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