Senegal’s new Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko criticized Paris’s handling of protests under former President Macky Sall on Thursday, accusing Macron’s presidency of indirectly inciting “persecution.”
“During the entire period of extremely brutal persecution of an entire political movement, which led to the death of more than sixty people, thousands of injuries, more than 1,000 political prisoners, you never heard the French government condemn what happened in Senegal. “Ousmane Sonko said during a more than hour-long speech on relations with Europe to students in Dakar. He accused the European Union of the same silence.
“This is incitement to repression, incitement to persecution and execution of Senegalese people.”
Ousmane Sonko accused Emmanuel Macron of welcoming and “congratulating” his Senegalese counterpart during “the worst (time)” of repression. “This is incitement to repression, incitement to persecution and execution of Senegalese who have committed (have not committed any other) crimes other than the implementation of a political project,” he said.
“The truth is that many European governments, especially French ones, have difficulty coping with our sovereignist political discourse and have made it their mission to thwart it. This explains the approving silence in the face of the bloody repression of President Macky Sall’s regime against our party,” he said.
Ousmane Sonko, who took part in a conference with French radical leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, stressed that he spoke as the leader of the Pastef party, and not as the head of government.
Source: Le Parisien
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