AA / Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
The Senegalese prison administration announced the escape from prison on Monday of Pape Mamadou Seck, arrested following the banned march of the opposition coalition Yewwi Askan wi (June 17) and accused of attempting to destabilize the country.
According to the press release from the prison administration, the prisoner escaped from the special ward of the LeDantec hospital in Dakar where he was transferred on July 1 for treatment of a severe pathology.
He is thus the subject of wanted and arrested notices.
Inspector of taxes and domain and leader of the Pastef party, Seck and his 11 co-defendants had been placed under a warrant of committal on June 29 and sent to the Reubeuss remand center.
Conspiracy once morest the authority of the State, acts likely to cause serious disturbances to public order, association of criminals with a terrorist enterprise, possession and transport of incendiary products and substances with a view to the commission of related acts with a terrorist enterprise are, among other things, the charges once morest them.
Acting under the name of ”Special Force”, they had been arrested on the sidelines of the prohibited march of the coalition of Yewwi Askan wi on June 17 in possession of large quantities of products for the manufacture of molotov cocktails.
Following this march, which protested once morest the rejection of candidate lists for the July 31 legislative elections, more than 100 people were arrested.
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