After the decision of the police to suspend the security cover of the struggle until a new order, several voices have risen. To mark their disagreement, to support the decision however hard it may be, to impose on amateurs, promoters, teams and wrestlers a discipline which is imperative to restore to the national sport its peaceful and ancient cultural character. Far from his people, Big Patho, who calls himself the “police of the arena”, from Uncle Sam’s country where he resides, gives his opinion on the insecurity and violence in the arena, irregular migration, among other salient facts of the day. Pathé Boye, civil servant, who warned of insecurity in the early hours, knows the subject well: “It is really a subject we have mastered since 2011, we have been working on it. Already in 1995, I was accompanying the champion de lutte de Mbour, Bombardier. It is at the age of 10 years that I started to frequent the milieu de la lutte until my integration in 2007 in the police”, explained Pathé Boye aka Big Patho who continues: “when I started to wrestle, I noticed that there was a problem at the level of the wrestling. Because there was a lot of violence before, during and at the end of the fights and also during the “face to face”. In 2011, when I started to wrestle for the police during the national university championship to become champion, I did not stop to be only the wrestler of the police.
Violence and insecurity in the struggle, temporary withdrawal of the police: Big Patho, the “flic de l’arène” tends the hand to the State and the CNG
