Night of March 21, 2021, in a house in Ngaye Mékhé, Ng. Fall asks her housekeeper, A. Cissé, to fold the laundry. The latter is slow to execute. The boss gets impatient and reminds her of her instructions. In vain.
Overwhelmed by anger, the head of the family slaps her employee. The 17-year-old girl, at the time of the events, took refuge on the terrace. Armed with a stick, Ng. Fall chases her and beats her. Hit in the head, A. Cissé collapsed and died instantly.
The murderer would have tried to disguise her crime. L’Observateur, which traces this case judged before the criminal chamber of Thiès, rewinds: Ng. Fall carries the lifeless body into the living room, cleans the traces of blood on the terrace and at the steps of the stairs before washing the body with bleach to hide the wounds, we read in Seneweb.
“This done, she moved the remains of A. Cissé to her room […]. Then, she went to make her neighbors believe that her cleaning lady suffered a seizure and fell to her death. [marches de l’] staircase,” reports the newspaper.
Despite his staging, Ng. It won’t take long for Fall to be unmasked. The firefighters, who arrived at the scene of the crime, noted that the victim’s body was “bleached and clean, despite the injuries”, indicates the daily newspaper of the Future Media Group. Who adds that the Ngaye Mékhé gendarmerie, alerted, managed to find the murder weapon, which was stained with blood, and proceeded to arrest the suspect.
At the helm of the criminal chamber, informs L’Observateur, Ng. Fall admitted to killing her housekeeper, but swears she didn’t know she died instantly. Her lawyer pleaded for the disqualification of the facts from murder to manslaughter, ensuring that her client did not intend to kill her victim.
Not being of this opinion, the prosecutor requested life imprisonment. Verdict: next July 29.
