The day before, an outburst of violence left nine dead after the conviction of the opponent Ousmane Sonko. Senegalese authorities deployed armed forces in Dakar on Friday (June 2nd) in the wake of the violence.
The government has acknowledged that it has restricted access to social networks such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Twitter to stop "the dissemination of hateful and subversive messages" The government refutes and the Minister of the Interior repeated overnight that the case was a "dispute" of a private nature. The court acquitted him of the charges of rape and death threats against this employee of a beauty salon.