2023-08-07 17:30:00
DISPATCH – Charged yesterday in Dakar on Sunday August 6 for “attack, conspiracy, dissemination of false news, acts and maneuvers likely to compromise public security or cause serious political disturbances”Master Juan Branco will be quickly expelled from Senegal to France.
According to his Parisian lawyers Masters Robin Binsard and Yassine Bouzrou, in a statement delivered to AFP, Branco was “extracted from prison this morning and presented to the judge who notified him of his placement under judicial supervision”.
A senior official at the Ministry of Justice confirmed that the expulsion of the Franco-Spanish is in progress. The latter is located “in a police station in order to be taken to the airport”indique Me Binsard, “exhausted but relieved to be released.”
Since his arrest, his client had started a hunger strike.
Notwithstanding a ban on access to Senegalese airports, Juan Branco had traveled to West Africa in support of Ousmane Sonko, a Senegalese politician arrested on July 28, after being sentenced on June 1, 2023 to two years in prison. closes for “youth corruption”.
Since 2021, Me Branco has been advising the defense of this political opponent to President Macky Sall, in a country facing serious social unrest, the result of a standoff as partisan as it is bloody.
On Sunday July 30, he made a surprise appearance in Dakar at a conference dedicated to the defense of the leader of the political party “African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity” (PASTEF), now dissolved.
Volatilized after this one, the author of Dusk was finally arrested on the banks of the Senegal River in Rosso, by the Mauritanian authorities, before being handed over to the Senegalese police, according to the official version described by the Interior Minister Antoine Diome.
Juan Branco evokes for his part a “kidnapping” a hundred kilometers from Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, by “hooded men without any distinctive sign and who injured his wrists”, according to Me Ciré Clédor Ly, one of Mr. Sonko’s Senegalese lawyers.
Senegalese authorities accuse Juan Branco and Ousmane Sanko of being responsible for calling for insurrection and promoting violence.
Juan Branco filed a complaint in June 2023 in France and seized the International Criminal Court in The Hague against Macky Sall and his administration for “crime against humanity” presumed towards his political adversaries.
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