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A call from the relatives of the two soldiers who had been reported missing on November 19 in Dakar, so that this affair is not forgotten. Sergeant Fulbert Sambou, from the intelligence department, was buried at the end of November. As for Chief Warrant Officer Didier Badji, in service at the General State Inspectorate, still no news. The families seized civil society organizations to accompany them, and organized a press conference on Wednesday.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
How did Fulbert Sambou die? Are the searches continuing to try to find Didier Badji? Many questions, but still no answers. Members of the Association of Nationals of the Bliss Islands of Casamance, where were born the two soldiers desperately waiting to see more clearly.
« Unfortunately, no official communication has been made so far, explains Alex Nicodème Tabar, on behalf of the association. The immediate family has not received anyone from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the army or the gendarmerie to inform them of the state of evolution of this file. »
The body of Fulbert Sambou had been found at sea, off Dakar. According to the prosecutor, the state of decomposition of the body “did not allow” to establish the exact causes of death, even less the autopsy ».
Maître Amadou Diallo, president of Amnesty International Senegal, denounces a ” omerta ». « Today, what these families are asking for is to know what the competent authorities, namely the command of the gendarmerie, the IGE, the General State Inspectorate – and therefore the judicial authorities – what they intend to do to determine the causes, the circumstances, possibly the authors of this death. We don’t know, we don’t know what’s going on. »
Accident ? Reckoning ? Assassination? Relatives promise to keep up the pressure to shed light on this case.