Le maintien de l’ordre n’est pas la barbarie
At Cheikh Anta Diop University, the police were supposed to maintain public order. But once on the scene, they sowed chaos. As usual! Yesterday, the mission wasn't to restore order, but to crack down on students. They had to subdue and repress them with maximum violence. The police then indulged themselves completely: they unleashed their full potential. The campus became their training ground. And what was bound to happen, happened. A medical student named Abdoulaye Ba was killed. Another death at UCAD!
This time, the accident theory will not hold water. The public witnessed what transpired throughout yesterday. Unbearable images circulated on social media. Some internet users raised the alarm, others expressed outrage, but to no avail. Because this was not law enforcement, but repression, gratuitous and indiscriminate violence, an attitude bordering on barbarity.
Among the numerous sequences, three stand out as examples. First, the window grille torn off by the police. Even if one doesn't know much about security protocols, one at least knows that a student confined to the student residence hall is no longer a threat to public order, especially when they are in their room. A student holed up in their room poses no risk.
Why then feel the need to tear the bars off his window, to smash the glass, to find him in his last hiding place? It's like a hunter chasing his quarry into its den deep in the forest. The difference is that a hunter wants to return with his prey, while the man in uniform is supposed to maintain order while protecting his target.
The second incident involved tear gas grenades being thrown into the girls' dormitories. In a previous article, we called for a review of the tear gas grenades used at UCAD, a place of high population density (https://www.seneweb.com/fr/news/Chronique/parlons-des-lacrymogenes-utilises-a-lucad_n_476068.html). We noted that the smell is unbearable, even outdoors. The police know better than anyone that this smoke is not meant for enclosed spaces. Why then release it in the corridor of a girls' dormitory?
Asthmatic students, overturned motorcycles
We all know that female students almost never participate in the front lines. We've rarely seen a girl throw stones at the security forces. Furthermore, many of them have asthma. Just last Friday, a girl fainted outdoors. The fire department had to intervene. Imagine if she had been indoors. The risk is therefore very high due to respiratory illnesses among the student population, especially among girls. But apparently, the police don't care.
The latest incident took place in front of Pavilion A. The footage shows police officers overturning motorcycles parked in front of the pavilion. One after another, three officers knock the motorcycles over, one by one, for no apparent reason. We would like to hear the police explain the connection between the mission that justified the deployment of these officers and the destruction of other people's property.
All of this illustrates that yesterday the police carried out their mission completely backwards: destroying, breaking, suppressing, and using violence rather than protecting, safeguarding, calming, and pacifying. Shedding light on the situation is certainly necessary, and assigning responsibility and punishing those at fault is certainly an obligation in these circumstances, if indeed one believes in such things. But the urgent need lies in training police officers and managing behavior, so that Senegal doesn't find itself once again playing doctor after the fact, especially at UCAD (Cheikh Anta Diop University).
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