After his hearings last Friday and this Monday, Madiambal Diagne returned in a document to the facts leading to the complaints filed against him by Ousmane Sonko, Diop Taïf and the businessman turned MP Abdoulaye Sylla.Par Dieynaba Kane
– Madiambal Diagne spoke out on the complaints which led to his hearings at urban security last Friday and this Monday. The former administrator of the Avenir Communication Group clarifies from the outset in a press release that it is “in no way” a question of “participating in the violation of secrecy of a criminal investigation”. However, he said, “it is appropriate to clarify, for the attention of public opinion, a certain number of facts.” And Mr. Diagne explained: “Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko filed a complaint against me during the last legislative elections, during which I was an unsuccessful candidate. He considered that my comments, made during a television program, were defamatory. The procedure had not been initiated and for good reason. But after I declared, at the end of these elections, to take a step back, to observe a pause regarding my public interventions, some interpreted this new posture as an evasion. Thus, informs the candidate for the last Legislative elections on the list of “Jamm ak Njariñ”, “Ousmane Sonko has filed a new complaint for defamation, public insults, dissemination of false news and maneuvers tending to provoke serious political unrest”. According to him, “the police investigators joined the two procedures”. Analyzing these facts, Madiambal Diagne underlines that it “clearly appears that Mr. Sonko wanted to set himself up as a public prosecutor”. Also, he points out, “the facts noted in his complaint for “defamation, public insults and dissemination of false news” date back to the years 2022 and 2023 and are, in absolute terms, covered by the criminal statute of limitations”.
Regarding the “remarks noted for the year 2024”, he informs that they “were made during the legislative election campaign and thus covered by the immunity given to candidates by the provisions of article L 117 of the Code Senegalese election. However, he assures, “in any case, to have assumed all of the comments” that he had “to make” and “has provided the investigators with all the necessary factual details”. And the former Gac administrator continued: “I bet that the unfortunate habit of seeing minutes of criminal investigations, opened against journalists and political opponents, “leaked” in certain media close to the Pastef regime, will not be no stake in this case.” In addition, Madiambal Diagne displays his astonishment at the fact that “essential questions, which have marked public life and caused all the hullabaloo that Senegal has experienced in recent years, were absent” from his hearings. Because, he informs, these questions “are curiously not covered by Ousmane Sonko’s complaint”.
Still regarding this hearing last Friday, Mr. Diagne informs that it lasted “around three hours”, but he “spent more than twelve hours with the police, without being notified of police custody”. And to deplore: “This means that, even if the police respected my rights, my ordeal could constitute a form of psychological and even physical torture.”
In his document, Madiambal Diagne also returned to his hearing yesterday concerning the complaints filed against him by “Mamadou Lamine Diop known as Diop Taïf, member of Prime Minister Sonko’s cabinet” and “by Abdoulaye Sylla, boss of the Ecotra company become a political actor.
Regarding Diop Taïf’s complaint, Madiambal Diagne declares that the complainant is offended that, in a post on . According to him, “Abdou Nguer had posted a video, showing his injuries and indicating that he had filed a complaint against Diop Taïf, who attacked him with a knife, after a show.” For this case, Mr. Diagne informs that he “replied to Diop Taïf’s complaint, with a complaint for “slanderous denunciation”, on the basis of article 362 of the Senegalese Penal Code”. “This complaint was filed at the end of my hearing,” he explains.
Complaint against Diop Taïf for “slanderous denunciation”
What about the complaint filed against him by Abdoulaye Sylla, boss of the Ecotra company, who became a political actor? The former boss of the Avenir Communication Group informs that Mr. Sylla “associated him with the complaint he made against the newspaper Le Quotidien, for a publication of August 6, 2024”. And Mr. Diagne denounced this act committed by the businessman: “It is public knowledge that I am neither the publishing director of this newspaper, much less the author of the article. The fact of associating myself with the complaint constitutes a real aberration. It should also be noted that, through its lawyer, Me Demba Ciré Bathily, the Ecotra company had already used its “right of reply”, in the edition of the newspaper Le Quotidien the following day, on August 7, 2024. » In the eyes of Mr. Diagne, it appears that “this complaint seems to have other motivations”. Madiambal Diagne thus makes it known in his document that Mr. Sylla’s attitude saddens him greatly. Especially since, he notes, “Abdoulaye Sylla was able to pass for a friend.” “In the name of our common religious guide, the late Serigne Saliou Mbacké, he sometimes sent me a sheep on the occasion of Tabaski or a bull for the Magal of Touba. Certainly, the political situation, which requires certain weak minds to seek at all costs to please Ousmane Sonko, can dictate certain unworthy postures. I would not allow myself to file a complaint against Abdoulaye Sylla. I would be ashamed of it,” he concluded.
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