It took little for the gendarmerie to lose one of its commanders on the ground. On Thursday, 30 November, a routine operation turned into a real surprise at Birkilane. While he was transferring a suspect arrested for murder, Commandant Ndiaye, patron of the local gendarmerie brigade, was confronted by a violent and perfectly coordinated attack. Surgissant des buissons, des bergers armés de machettes ont tenté de l’exécuter pour libérer le présumé meurtrier. (Surgishing from the bushes, shepherds armed with machetes have attempted to execute him to free the presumed murderer.) Le commandant Ndiaye, chef de la brigade de gendarmerie de Birkilane, was a failure and a failure. According to L’Observateur, he was the victim of a planned attack by shepherds who had attempted to free one of their colleagues arrested for murder and who was being led to the Brigade.
The commandant of the gendarmerie escaped an assassination.
