An important coup d’état was led by the Commissariat central de Rufisque, which led to the arrest of seven people involved in a vast network of falsification of administrative documents. The accused are being prosecuted for association of perpetrators, forgery and use of forgery in public writing. It all started with a report issued by the Directorate for the Automation of the Fichier (DAF), which alerted the authorities to the presence of a Rufisque suspect suspected of participating in the fabrication of false administrative documents. On the spot, DAF agents presented some twenty false birth certificates, all attributed to individuals domiciled in Rufisque, Bargny, Mbao, Keur Massar and Keur Ndiaye Lo. These documents bore the forged signature of an official of civil status en poste à Rufisque. The investigation at first led to the arrest of a woman of foreign nationality, the holder of a false birth certificate acquired through her husband. The latter, also questioned, admitted to having paid 100 000 FCFA to an intermediary for obtaining the document. The investigation then set up a structured financial circuit, in which each actor received a part of the sum: 70 000 FCFA for a first relay, 40 000 FCFA for a second, up to 25 000 FCFA for the author himself of the falsification. The latter acknowledged having drawn up the documents and having handed them over to an accomplice charged with assisting the beneficiaries in their administrative procedures, in particular for obtaining national identity cards and certificates of nationality from the police and courts. The seven individuals were referred to the parquet of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Rufisque on 25 July 2025.
In the case of the French Republic, the Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the applicant.
