Guy Marius Sagna, deputy of the African Patriots of Senegal party for work, ethics and fraternity (Pastef, of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye) and also parliamentarian of ECOWAS, participated in a meeting Sunday in Lomé when he was attacked, said the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A video filmed at the time of the incident and posted on social networks shows Guy Marius Sagna declaring to the tribune that there “are people who did not want this meeting to take place”, when it is suddenly interrupted in great confusion.
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Another video shows Guy Marius Sagna lying on a bed hospital, left hand bandaged. In a third, he reports that he and the other participants were beaten with chairs and fists. A Togolese MP was also beaten, he added.
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“People of the regime [togolais] paid thugs to come and beat, assault, assault and perhaps even murder Togolese, deputies in the National Assembly of Togo and a deputy in the Parliament of the ECOWAS,” he said. This shows, according to him, that “no Togolese is safe”.
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The Don’t Touch My Constitution front, a coalition of Togolese parties and civil society groups formed in response has the adoption of a new fundamental law in Togo, indicated in a press release that several other people had been injured.
An “unspeakable act” condemned “firmly”
He points to the responsibility of people “hidden behind militiamen in the aimed at silencing MP Guy Marius Sagna, who had already spoken out against the excesses of the Togolese regime.
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Guy Marius Sagna, leader of the Front for a Popular and Pan-African Anti-Imperialist Revolution (Frapp) in Senegal, known for its outrageous coups and several times detained under the presidency of Macky Sall, has criticized in the past the adoption in Togo of a new Constitution denounced by the opposition as allowing has Faure Gnassingbé to remain in power.
The Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs “firmly condemns this unspeakable act [et] requests that an investigation be immediately launched,” he said in and communiqué.
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