A Senegalese public prosecutor claimed on Tuesday that a student, who protesters have said was killed by the police, in fact died after “jumping from the fourth floor.”<\/p>\n
The death of medical student Abdoulaye Ba in unclear circumstances on February 9 as police intervened on his university campus in the capital Dakar following several days of student demonstrations has shaken the west African nation.<\/p>\n
His autopsy report lists several injuries to the chest and skull “complicated by massive internal bleeding,” which the coroner said ruled out “an isolated natural cause.”<\/p>\n
The students’ collective at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) insisted last week that Ba was “brutally tortured to death by the police.”<\/p>\n
But the Dakar court’s prosecutor on Tuesday rejected that account, insisting that Ba “had not been beaten.”<\/p>\n
The student “jumped from the fourth floor of Pavilion F and unfortunately landed on the asphalt. This explains the injuries and other damage observed by the forensic doctor on his body,” Ibrahima Ndoye told the press.<\/p>\n
According to Ndoye, Ba was attempting to flee from a fire that had broken out in their dormitory, resulting in “flames and smoke that were causing them to suffocate.”<\/p>\n
The prosecutor did not give details about the cause of the alleged fire, which took place during the police intervention on campus.<\/p>\n
His previous insistence on Saturday that Ba had not been tortured prompted the UCAD students’ association to accuse the prosecutor of “stirring up confusion.”<\/p>\n
The government has described the student’s death as a “tragedy” and admitted to “police misconduct.” But Interior Minister Mouhamadou Bamba Cisse also justified the intervention by accusing students of attempting to destroy university campus infrastructure, citing video evidence.<\/p>\n
Footage filmed by students and shared on social media showed the violence between the security forces and students.<\/p>\n
In some of the images, officers are seen entering university grounds and firing tear gas into buildings while students retaliated by throwing stones.<\/p>\n
In one video authenticated by AFP, police officers are seen striking a screaming man with blunt instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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