As violence erupted in Senegal after the judicial conviction of an opponent of the regime, his compatriots in Bordeaux flooded into the consulate where they entered. The portrait of the outgoing president, hanging in the consul's office, was torn off.

In Dakar and Ziguinchor, nine people died in the violence that erupted after the conviction of Ousmane Sonko. The Senegalese consul filed a complaint against this man for his gesture and this deterioration.