2023-11-12 08:54:57
When we met him in November 2016, he still remembered the “sound of exploding mines” in Indochina, and he fought tirelessly to have the rights of the Senegalese tirailleurs, these former soldiers of the colonial troops enlisted in the army, recognized. French. Seven years later, Oumar Diemé won this fight. And next year, the man, who will celebrate his 91st birthday, should put this story in the spotlight during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. During a trip organized this week to Dakar, the departmental council of Seine-Saint -Denis officially announced that he had proposed his name among the future bearers of the Olympic flame in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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