One-year sentence sought for gendarme in Fallou Sène case
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Soleil
At the military trial in Dakar over student Fallou Sène’s death, prosecutors sought a one-year prison sentence without parole for Captain Serigne Moustapha Sané, who admitted firing the fatal shot in 2018. The court will rule on 27 November, reports Le Soleil.
The public prosecutor at Dakar’s military court sought a one-year prison sentence without parole for gendarmerie Captain Serigne Moustapha Sané, who is on trial over the death of student Fallou Sène at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis. The court will deliver its ruling on 27 November, reports Le Soleil.
Serigne Moustapha Sané admitted at the hearing that he had fired the fatal projectile, explaining that he wanted to free a gendarme who was being attacked during an intervention on campus. The public prosecutor described the facts as wilful assault causing death without intent to kill. Lawyers for the civil parties challenged the legality of the requisition that led to the intervention and requested 200 million CFA francs for Fallou Sène’s family and 50 million for the student coordination body.
The defence called for an acquittal, citing a state of necessity and the performance of an official mission. It also challenged the students’ standing as civil parties, arguing that they had not suffered direct harm.
The hearing follows the opening of the trial over Fallou Sène’s murder in Dakar, announced on 30 October. The same day, another publication reported that the gendarme had admitted firing the shot and that the public prosecutor had sought a six-month prison sentence without parole against him in this trial.
