​Inquête sur les violences de 2021 à 2024: The prosecutor has launched a judicial investigation into the deaths of 80 people 

  The Senegalese State is embarking on a new stage in the treatment of political violence that has shaken the country between 2021 and 2024. At the heart of this approach: the search for truth and justice for the at least 80 deaths recorded during the demonstrations. The procureur de la République, on the authority of the Minister of Justice, was formally charged with opening a judicial inquiry into the serious facts: murders, tortures, assassinations… and potentially crimes against humanity. According to the exclusive revelations of the newspaper L’Observateur, it was the Garde des Sceaux, Ousmane Diagne, who addressed an official request to the procureur général for the opening of this procedure. The note followed the administrative circuit until it reached the office of the prosecutor Ibrahima Ndoye, at the tribunal de grande instance de Dakar, now in charge of conducting the investigation. Although the amnesty law adopted under former President Macky Sall has attempted to close this dark page, the legal fog persists. Indeed, certain offences, such as crimes de sang (murders, tortures, assassinations) or crimes against humanity, are not covered by this law and are therefore legally prosecutable. According to judicial sources familiar with the case, a preliminary analysis enabled the investigation to define its scope.