DEFAMATION TRIAL-The Daily sentenced to one month and closes at 10 million francs in damages

The verdict in the case between the newspaper "The Daily" the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Alioune Badara Cisse fell yesterday. The daily group "Future Communications" was sentenced to months in prison for defamation. A sentence accompanied by a three-month suspension and $ 10 million in damages.

  The verdict came yesterday as a chopper over the head of our colleagues in the newspaper of the City Djily Mbaye Yoff. The libel suit brought against them by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Alioune Badara Cissé, was emptied yesterday. The judge sentenced confreres a mandatory sentence of one month in addition to a three-month suspension and $ 10 million in damages.

As a reminder, our colleagues were published on June 20 an article entitled: "Sacked government, challenged and made minority in his party, the ABC of loneliness", signed by David Bastian, at the time French intern "daily. "In this article, journalists have called "gravedigger of the Senegalese diplomacy and troublemaker in the party Alliance for the Republic (APR)." Affected by these qualifiers, Mr. Alioune Badara Cissé had filed a complaint for defamation. The current managing editor of "Daily" Mohamed Gueye joined this morning by our colleagues in the future Radio Media (RFM) has decided to appeal.

Harouna FALL