• The prosecution is asking for 10 years in prison for Ousmane Sonko and 5 years for Ndeye Khady Ndiaye for complicity in the Sweet Beauty affair.
• If the rape is not established, the prosecution demands that the leader of Pastef be prosecuted for youth corruption.
• The doubt expressed by the prosecution on Sonko’s guilt could influence the verdict which will be handed down on June 1.

End of the Sweet Beauty trial, the prosecution requested 10 years of criminal imprisonment against Ousmane Sonko and 5 years against Ndeye Khady Ndiaye for complicity. And if the rape is not established, the prosecution asks that another offense be held against the leader of Pastef, namely youth corruption.

We can say that the prosecutor is not sufficiently reassured of the guilt of Mr. Ousmane Sonko. Thus, he would seek to charge him with other offences, if ever the rape is not held against him. Doubt therefore settles in the head of the prosecutor who opens a new breach.

Adji Sarr’s lawyer himself, Me El Hadj Diouf, does not understand this attitude of the public prosecutor, which he considers unprecedented. “If the prosecution comes to tell us, if you are not convinced of the rape, retain the corruption of youth, it does not seem rigorous and it is unprecedented. I don’t know what the prosecution is looking for, ” said the black dress, at the end of the hearing, late at night.

We therefore understand that in its final indictment, the prosecution expressed doubt about the guilt of Ousmane Sonko in relation to the rape. However, it is accepted that in criminal matters, doubt benefits the defendant, by virtue of the principle of the presumption of innocence. Of course, the judge is in no way bound by this doubt of the prosecution, but it should greatly influence the verdict because it comes from the master of the prosecution.

The recent Sitor Ndour case law rendered on April 19 is an illustration of the fate reserved for doubt in criminal matters. After several months of detention, the former director of the Coud was acquitted with the benefit of the doubt. The same scenario could happen in the Sweet Beauty affair where almost all the witnesses discharged the leader of Pastef. Which undoubtedly made the prosecutor doubt.

The doubt of the prosecution also relieves Ndeye Khady Ndiaye prosecuted for complicity in this file.

Finally, the two defendants will be edified on the fate on June 1, date fixed for the verdict.