Managers and guests of the Riu Baobab hotel in Pointe Séréne experienced a very eventful weekend, marked by violent clashes between the local police and criminals. The latter, around twenty, entered the hotel, neutralized the security guards found on site and exchanged gunfire with the Pandoras before fleeing with more than 12 million FCFA, according to reported information. by The Observer.
The worst was narrowly avoided in this reception located on Petite-Côte, where the robbery carried out on the night of Saturday to Sunday January 19, 2025 plunged managers and guests into a state of shock and total psychosis, underlines L’Observateur . These criminals, heavily armed, took over the hotel and stole more than 12 million FCFA. Worse still, facing the police from the Nianing gendarmerie brigade, they exchanged gunfire before disappearing aboard the hotel bus.
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, around 2 a.m., the security guards at the main door of the Riu Baobab hotel received a surprise visit from individuals who, according to the first elements of the investigation carried out by the pandores of Nianing, Senegalese. The Observer reports that these criminals, armed with homemade hunting rifles and bladed weapons, kept the guards at bay, whom they tied up before entering the hotel.
Once inside, the thugs, specialists in burglary, dispersed throughout the establishment, taking over the reception where they stole the sum of 12 million FCFA found in the cash register. Still according to L’Observateur, they also emptied the cash register of the receptionist’s shop, taking away the 100,000 FCFA that the manager kept there.
-Turning back, the attackers encountered Pandoras alerted by hotel officials at the main door. Determined to defy the police, they opened fire on them. Faced with the response of the gendarmes, the twenty criminals, heavily armed, returned to the hotel. The Observer underlines that this situation created real panic among customers, coming from various backgrounds, some of whom were members of Caco, a subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et de consignation (CDC) of Dakar.
In indescribable disorder, the guests, startled awake by the gunshots, desperately tried to escape the fury of the attackers, who then took possession of the hotel bus. They violently extracted the dozing driver and drove off towards the beach. Given that the hotel only has one exit and entry door, the offenders were forced to cut the fences to create an escape route, details L’Observateur.
After their departure, elements of the Nianing gendarmerie brigade, who opened an investigation, carried out the usual findings in the company of those in charge of the establishment.
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