The protest that ignited the streets of Senegalese cities last week is hesitating.
The movement does not really resume, without completely disappearing.
The police remain on alert and the armored vehicles deployed in Dakar.
But whether he runs out of steam or not, he will leave lasting traces and appear as a stern message for President Macky Sall.
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The three days of great violence and the heavy toll - five deaths according to the authorities, eleven according to local NGOs -, as rare as each other in this country with a rather peaceful political culture, are the sign of this. more obvious.
The opponent Ousmane Sonko knows this perfectly well.
The case is indeed, initially, his.
Implicated in early February for "sexual assault" and threatened by a masseuse, the deputy immediately denied and brought this to political ground, accusing Macky Sall of having hatched a
"plot"
against him.
His arrest, on March 3, for
"illegal demonstration",
while he was on his way to a summons
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