Cleared by its leader Ousmane Sonko, Yarga Sy suspected of an assassination attempt on its leader has not yet pulled through.
According to Liberation, the person in charge of Pastef in Sakal faced yesterday the judge of the second cabin who placed him under warrant of deposit yesterday. He is being prosecuted for attempted murder, manslaughter and the throwing of a liquid that might harm a person’s physical integrity.
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Liberation, which gives the information in its edition of this Saturday, recalls that the respondent was already under a warrant of deposit, in another procedure, for undermining state security, in particular.
Yarga Sy, 35, an AIBD agent, is presented by Ousmane Sonko as a “brother” to whom he would entrust his life.
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On the day of the incriminated facts, Thursday March 16, leaving Saly where he lives, he was in Sonko’s procession for the court and his trial once morest Mame Mbaye Niang.
At Mermoz, in the midst of the tussle between Sonko and the police, who forcibly extracted him from his car to drive him to court themselves, Yarga Sy hands a scarf soaked in vinegar to the leader of the Patriots .
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Faced with the investigators, he swore that by this gesture, he was trying to help Sonko who was beginning to suffer the effects of tear gas fired into the crowd. He thus denied having poured any liquid to Sonko and, even less, sought to take his life.
