Canada: Arrested Senegalese diplomat owed more than CAD 45,000 to her owner

The Senegalese diplomat whose arrest in Canada last week sparked an outcry in Dakar owed more than 45,000 Canadian dollars (34,000 euros) in damages to her landlord for seriously damaging her home, according to a court document.

The order of the Administrative Housing Tribunal, obtained Monday evening by Radio-Canada and which AFP was able to consult, indicates that Oumou Kalsoum Sall was sentenced on June 2 for

and

“racist act”

“The furniture is full of cockroaches.

The furniture is scuffed and scratched.

It lacks it.

Everything is dirty”

, can we read in the document which adds that four treatments against the harmful ones did not make it possible to get rid of it.

We also learn that

This judgment surfaced after the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced the arrest of its employee on Friday, citing a

violent and committed despite the

.

Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland reacted by denouncing at a press conference on Tuesday

Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly also said the same day that she had spoken with her Senegalese counterpart and assured him that the Canadian government

in the matter.

On Saturday, the government of Quebec - the province where the incident took place - announced the opening of a police investigation by the Quebec police after

The police in Gatineau, a Quebec suburb of the Canadian federal capital Ottawa, admitted Friday evening the altercation that occurred when a bailiff

had requested the assistance of the police.

The police said they faced

said a statement, and

of the diplomat.

But she

and

At

time did the diplomat

, underlines the police department, which nevertheless recognizes, without further details, that an ambulance was dispatched a few minutes later.