Boffa Bayotte massacre in Senegal: 12 detainees released after 4 years in prison

In the case of the Boffa Bayotte massacre in Casamance, 12 detainees were released after four years in prison.

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The case of the massacre of fourteen wood cutters in Boffa Bayotte in Casamance which dates from 2018 is resurfacing.

Twelve defendants out of the 25 detainees were released on Friday January 28 after spending four years in prison. 

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With our correspondent in Dakar,

Of the twelve people released, ten obtained a dismissal, that is to say that they were cleared by the investigating judge at the time of the order for the closure of the investigation which was pronounced on Friday .

Two other detainees were granted provisional release after spending four years in prison.

The rest of those arrested are awaiting in detention the date of the hearing of the trial which will take place in the criminal chamber of Ziguinchor.

 An “ abnormally long 

” pre-

trial detention

Assane Dioma Ndiaye, president of the Senegalese League for Human Rights is also one of the detainees' lawyers.

He regrets that this pre-trial detention was "

".

"

 ," he said.

He then explains that the ten people who received a dismissal will seek damages provided for by law, and " 

 " according to the lawyer.

These villagers had been arrested

found dead on January 6, 2018 in the classified forest of Boffa Bayotte, south of Ziguinchor, not far from the border with Guinea-Bissau.

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