AA/ Dakar/ Alioune Ndiaye
The Senegalese deputies Massata Samb and Mamadou Niang of the Yewwi Askan Wi (opposition) coalition were placed on Thursday evening under a warrant of arrest by the public prosecutor following a complaint by their colleague Amy Ndiaye whom they had attacked in the middle of the session in The national assembly.
On December 1, Amy Ndiaye, deputy of the presidential majority Benno Bokk Yakaar had received a slap (from Massata Samb) while he was in the visiting room before the stride of the fight following this attack, Mamadou Niang adds to it with a kick in the stomach of the lady who replied by swinging a chair at her executioners.
The images had made the rounds on social networks, leading the prosecutor to order the security forces on December 3 to arrest and bring to justice the two opposition deputies whose act was flagrante delicto.
The two deputies had not been found since then and finally resurfaced Monday in the Assembly on the occasion of the declaration of general policy by Prime Minister Amadou Bâ.
Since the police were unable to gain access to the hemicycle to arrest them, negotiations between them and the opposition deputies, in solidarity with the cause of their two colleagues, led to a commitment that Samb and Niang present themselves the next day (Tuesday) to the criminal investigations division of the police.
A commitment finally respected and the two deputies were placed in police custody following their face to face with the judge before being placed under arrest warrant at the end of the police custody.
Member of the party of unity and gathering (Pur) of the religious guide Moustapha Sy, the two parliamentarians had deplored irreverent and offensive remarks towards their religious guide to justify their act.
Samb and Niang will thus face the judge on Monday to answer for the alleged offences. “We dare to hope that on Monday, the judge will have the courage and the promptness to respond favorably to their request by purely and simply canceling the proceedings which are not in accordance with the legality”, argued Friday Adama Fall, one of the lawyers for the parliamentarians incriminated.
Until then hospitalized, the three-month pregnant parliamentarian according to a medical certificate drawn up by the maternity ward of the Main Hospital in Dakar is under “a threat of early post-traumatic abortion” according to the medical document.
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