The robbery of a hotel establishment located on Petite-Côte, at Pointe Séréne, in the department of Mbour, is the most prominent subject in Monday’s delivery of the daily press.
Many newspapers, including Walfquotidien, report that armed criminals attacked the Riu Baobab hotel on Saturday night, located in an area considered to be a stronghold of seaside tourism in Senegal.
“This gang, made up of around thirty individuals, was not able to take away a lot of money, thanks to the rapid intervention of elements of the Mbour gendarmerie brigade assisted by reinforcements from local intervention units surrounding areas,” reports Walfquotidien.
Vox Populi evokes a scene “worthy of a Hollywood film”, with as actors “around twenty armed bandits”, who managed to overpower the staff and security of the hotel before taking with them in their retreat a loot of 12 million CFA francs, according to the newspaper.
“They were able to flee after exchanges of fire with the gendarmes,” underlines Le Quotidien, which in turn mentions loot of 12 million taken by the attackers.
“Momentum of solidarity around Farba Ngom”
“It was an eventful and tense Saturday,” comments Le Quotidien. He reports that the attackers “exchanged fire with the gendarmes before blending into nature, tearing down the chain link fence of the hotel establishment. Like in a movie.”
The managers and customers of this hotel establishment “experienced an eventful weekend, marked by violent clashes between the local police and criminals”, adds L’Observateur.
The criminals, “around twenty, entered the said hotel, neutralized the security guards found on site and exchanged firearms with the Pandoras”, before fleeing “with more than 12 million CFA francs”, adds the same publication. “War scene at the Riu Baobab hotel”, displays L’Observateur, the same title appearing on the front page of the daily L’As, with a few words.
-For the rest, Les Echos speaks of a “surge of solidarity” around MP Mouhamadou Ngom known as Farba, cited in an investigation into a money laundering case. He announces a “major march for the resistance” planned for this Thursday, at the initiative of his friends, while the collective of lawyers formed to defend the deputy “is growing”.
“The deputy mayor of Agnam whose parliamentary immunity has been lifted by the National Assembly will sell his skin dearly. While his first hearing is scheduled for Tuesday by the ad hoc committee, Farba Ngom receives demonstrations [de sympathie] from everywhere in the diaspora and in Senegal,” writes L’As.
Sud Quotidien, somewhat along the lines of the problem of governance, takes stock of the Financial Judicial Pool, whose start of activities marks “the second death of the CREI”, the Court for the repression of illicit enrichment.
The Diomaye Plan, to turn the page on the conflict in Casamance
“With 91 open files including 87 transmitted to the financial investigating judges leading to the arrest of 162 people and allowing the State to seize 2 billion 500 million, the Financial Judicial Pool seems to seal the second burial or the second death of its predecessor which displays a less laudatory record after its reactivation”, we read in the columns of this publication.
The daily Enquête is interested in the first edition of the Conference of Public Administrators and Managers (CAMP), which is being held this Monday, under the presidency of the Head of State, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. “This meeting will bring together all decision-makers from the public and parapublic sector, to instill in them the basics and other principles that govern public service,” specifies the newspaper.
Le Soleil opens with the Diomaye Plan for Casamance (PDC), which announces, according to the newspaper, “the time for investments in Casamance”, the southern part of Senegal bruised by the consequences of an armed conflict of more than 30 years, linked to the demands of the separatists of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC).
“With an envelope of more than 53 billion FCFA, including 30.9 billion FCFA for the year 2025, the PDC will allow Ziguinchor, Sédhiou and Kolda to definitively turn the page on the conflict”, with priority given to demining and the return of displaced villages, indicates Le Soleil.
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