00:00A public prosecutor in Senegal has rejected accusations that a student who died on a Dakar University campus was killed
00:08by police.
00:10Abdullai Bar had injuries to his chest and skull as well as massive internal bleeding when he was found dead
00:17earlier this month.
00:20Abdullai Bar was not tortured. Abdullai Bar was not beaten because there was never any physical contact between him and
00:29the defense and security forces.
00:32His death resulted and we deplore it. We will always regret it from a fall from the fourth floor and
00:39he landed on the asphalt.
00:45Authorities say Bar was fleeing a fire that had broken out in his dorm room.
00:50But the prosecutor agreed that police engaged in misconduct when they intervened at the university after several days of student
00:58demonstrations.
00:59The National Police, which in a moment of crisis nonetheless chose to readily overstep the acceptable limits of law enforcement
01:08by targeting other members of the social fabric who had already been arrested,
01:13with some even going so far as to damage motorcycles they arbitrarily decided to vandalize.
01:20The investigation on them will, after identification, certainly make it possible to initiate legal proceedings against them.
01:29Video footage shared on social media showed the violence between the security forces and students.
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