2023-10-17 11:05:24
Margis Chief Ibrahima Baldé appeared this Monday, October 16, 2023 before the Dixinn court of first instance. This agent is being prosecuted for the murder of three young people during the FNDC demonstration on October 20, 2022. After hearing the civil party, the court ordered the appearance of his commander and his deputy at the hearing on October 23 .
The sister of victim Elhadj Boubacar Diallo was heard for the first time by the court in this case. Mariama Benthè Diallo explains that on October 20, 2022 she was with her 17-year-old little brother. He would have helped him with household chores. At the end, he took leave of his sister to go and rest. That’s when she heard shots and noticed that the bullets had hit her little brother. Then, people told him that it was the gendarmes who shot his little brother. Mariama Benthé Diallo turns to God, because she did not see the one who shot her brother. She cannot therefore incriminate Margis Chief Ibrahima Baldé at the bar. She only saw the video of this agent with his gun, the evening of the murder.
At the request of the civil party’s lawyer, Maître Thierno Souleymane Baldé, the court ordered the appearance of the commander and deputy commander of the Mobile Gendarmerie Squadron No. 2 where the accused worked at the time of the events. cause.
The hearing was postponed until October 23, 2023 for the continuation of the debates.
As a reminder, Margis-Chief Ibrahima Baldé has been in pre-trial detention since December 6, 2022. He is accused of murdering three young people on the sidelines of the demonstration of October 20, 2022. Today, a video of him with a semi-automatic pistol (TT30 according to the prosecution) went viral on social networks.
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