Mauritania shaken by riots. At the beginning of the week, cities in the Islamic Republic experienced strong protests, a demonstrator was killed in the south of the country. These movements follow the death of a young black Mauritanian in Nouakchott on Sunday 28 May. This young man was called Oumar Diop, he died after being arrested by the police.
It was during the night of Sunday to Monday in the Sebkha district that the young Oumar Diop was arrested by the police. In their version, the police explain having surprised a fight in which the young man was violently manhandled by three other people, who fled when the police arrived. Still according to the agents, Oumar Diop was under the effect of psychotropic drugs, they took him to the central police station of Sebkha for investigation purposes.
It was two hours later that the young man complained of ” shortness of breath he was transferred to the National Hospital, where his health deteriorated rapidly before he died. In response, riots broke out in Nouakchott, but also in the economic city of Nouadhibou, as well as in Boghé.
In this city in the south of the country, and according to the Minister of the Interior, Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Lemine, a demonstrator died after trying to attack the police station. The public prosecutor says that an investigation has been opened to clarify the circumstances of Oumar Diop’s death. He will present the final report of the autopsy as soon as all the elements are gathered.
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