2023-06-02 21:53:53
DAKAR: Stars from Senegal’s national football team, such as Bayern Munich striker Sadio Mané, have called for an end to the violence that left nine people dead in the country following opponent Ousmane Sonko was sentenced on Thursday.
“Too much blood has already been spilled for 2 years. It is essential that all the stakeholders of the nation immediately unite their efforts to find peace”, writes on Instagram Sadio Mané, star striker and scorer of the “Lions”, nickname of the ‘National team. Mané calls “to preserve our youth (in Senegal), our first wealth”.
Abdou Diallo, defender of Leipzig, also in Germany, regretted on Twitter that “blood is flowing and the situation is deteriorating” in the country. He invited “those who can sort things out” to do so “as soon as possible regardless of personal opinions” because “lives are at stake”.
A similar call came from striker Famara Diedhiou, from Granada, a Spanish second division club promoted to La Liga this year. He said on the same social network “for calm and peace” in Senegal which “has always been a country of reference in Africa but all over the world”. However, “too much blood is flowing, the blood of our own brothers”.
Mr. Sonko, third in the 2019 presidential election and radical opponent of President Macky Sall, was sentenced Thursday by a Dakar criminal chamber to two years in prison for having pushed a young woman under 21 to “debauchery”. .
The court, on the other hand, acquitted him of the charges of rape and death threats for which he was tried. The decision appears, in view of the electoral code, to result in the ineligibility of Mr. Sonko for the presidential election of 2024.
Mr. Sonko has continued to deny the charges, shouting at the machinations of power to remove him from the presidential election.
The violence between young people and the police that erupted following the verdict officially left nine people dead. Twenty civilians had already been killed since 2021 in unrest largely linked to Mr. Sonko’s legal troubles.
In Senegal, title holder of the African Cup of Nations, the first trophy won by the national football team in February 2022 in Cameroon, the players of the national team are adored.
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