four UCAD students stop by the Soumbédioune fishing wharf to get drugs
Placed under a detention warrant since January 9, the defendants faced the judge of the Court of Flagrante Delicts of Dakar to answer for the facts of Indian hemp for the purpose of use.
At the helm, the four defendants all admitted the facts bluntly. Questioned first, MA Diafoune returned to the facts. “That day around 2 a.m., my friends and I had left the university social campus to go to a party at Monaco Plage. And to make the party beautiful, we passed by the fishing quay of Soumbédioune where we each got ourselves a cone of Indian hemp at 1000 francs. And we had continued on our way. Arrived at the Colobane roundabout, the elements of the research section challenged us. Subsequently, they found themselves in the pockets of each a cone of Indian hemp,” said the respondent. In this regard, the same statements were made by his co-defendants at the bar.
When the judge asked who was the person who sold them the drugs, IThey will claim not to know her.
Speaking to make his indictment, the representative of the public prosecutor requested an application of the law. As for the defense provided by Me Iba Mar Diop, she requested from the Court an exemption from sentence given their status as students. But despite the pleading of their lawyerthe Court, after having deliberated in accordance with the law, declared the defendants guilty and sentenced them to 10 days in prison…