The legal team of former president Macky Sall is taking action in Dakar. Arriving last night in the Senegalese capital, Me Pierre-Olivier Sur, a lawyer at the Paris bar and coordinator of the international defense team, is set to hold a closed-door meeting with his Senegalese colleagues on Thursday morning.

This strategic meeting, which is expected to be decisive, will be an opportunity to convey a personal message from the former head of state and to clarify the defense strategy initiated since October 7th. At the center of the discussions: the “hidden debt”, an explosive case in which Macky Sall is accused of concealing public loans estimated between 7 and 10 billion dollars. The former president denies these accusations and denounces political manipulation.

His lawyers are demanding from the State the communication of the full reports from the Inspectorate General of Finance and the Court of Auditors, which have remained unanswered. Due to a lack of available venues – with several hotels declining out of fear of reprisals – the press conference planned with lawyers and financial experts is expected to take place at the headquarters of the Alliance for the Republic (APR), unless an alternative solution is found in the morning.