Franco-Spanish lawyer for Ousmane Sonko, Juan Branco, is not happy. And he doesn’t mince his words to make it known. Following Ousmane Diagne’s response yesterday, Me Branco expressed all his anger.

“I learn that the Minister of Justice has just responded to Guy Marius Sagna, indicating that the government demands the transmission of the complaint, translated into French, before any response. Never does a democratic government make the transmission of information in a rogatory commission dependent on access to the criminal file. Wanting to know what the complaint and the procedure contain is admitting that one is siding with those responsible for the commission of crimes. Refusing to transmit the information requested by an independent and democratic judicial authority is to show and demonstrate one’s malfeasance and betrayal. Senegalese authorities have been blocking this procedure for a year. I am ashamed, today, of those I have supported and for whom I have shown myself ready to sacrifice everything. Shame on you. Shame,” he wrote on Facebook.