« Justice or injustice: D-Day“. A reaction from Adama Gaye who was acquitted, this Friday, December 6, 2024, by the Dakar flagrante delictos court.
For the record, the journalist was prosecuted for broadcasting false news following his comments made on Sen TV. A broadcast during which he declared that the former Minister of Finance, Mamadou Moustapha Ba had been assassinated.
Discover the reaction of journalist Adama Gaye:
Day of redemption for Senegalese justice. After a solid and structured defense, which with my brilliant lawyers (Seydou Diagne, Adja Diallo, Souleymane Soumare and François Senghor), I deployed before the Dakar Court, a week ago, she will have to render the deliberations today on this trial, which should never have taken place.
Although driven by a concern for pacification and welcoming the similar approach which seemed to be that of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, I think I have committed no fault.
In the absence of contrary evidence that the Prosecutor’s Office has not produced, wanting to consider my deductions as a dissemination of false news, is, in my opinion, a hasty, premature and judicially hazardous judgment.
As was the case when Galileo was judged on erroneous presumptions, after he asserted that the earth rotates, as one of my lawyers recalled. Later, we had to recognize the blunder against him.
Not being this figure who entered history, I remain on the basis of my status as a citizen and I hope that the Senegalese justice system will not make a mistake in its verdict.
The people are witnesses. My custody, already illegal, should indicate to the justice system the path to follow: rehabilitate…
But, as a legalist, I will comply with whatever she decides. While being convinced, however, of my right to freedom of expression and opinion. The same one that allowed investigative journalists, the best in history, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, to reveal the entire Watergate scandal – until bringing down the most powerful man in the world, in 1974, in Richard Nixon, then President of the United States of America.
I return to my silo of silence. Waiting for…
