AA/ Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
The Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad strongly condemned, on Friday, the degrading treatment inflicted by the Canadian police on one of its diplomats stationed in Ottawa.
On August 2, Canadian police carried out a raid of rare violence at the home of the diplomat on duty at the Senegalese Embassy in Ottawa.
“Informed of these unacceptable and unjustifiable facts, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad immediately summoned the Chargé d’Affaires of the Canadian Embassy in Dakar to vigorously denounce and firmly condemn this racist and barbaric act”, Senegalese diplomacy said in a statement.
“During this operation, the Canadian police exercised humiliating physical and moral violence on the diplomat, in front of witnesses, and in the presence of her minor children”, deplored the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Despite the reminder of the victim’s status as a diplomat and of the inviolability of her home, the elements of the Canadian police handcuffed her and savagely beat her, to the point that she had difficulty breathing, which led to his evacuation by ambulance to the hospital”, continued the press release signed by Minister Aïssata Tall Sall.
Dakar thus transmitted a note of protest to the Canadian authorities via the Canadian Embassy in Dakar and that of Senegal in Ottawa, while demanding that an investigation be carried out and proceedings brought once morest the perpetrators of this inadmissible aggression.
The facts that led to the raid of the Canadian police at the victim have not been specified.
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