Homosexual marriage: The prosecution requires 2 years in prison against the...

26 homosexuals were arrested with the sacred heart, while they were celebrating an anniversary and the marriage between Matar Diaw and Yakhya Ndiaye. After their indictment and placement under a committal warrant for an unnatural act, the 20 young people appeared on Friday at the bar of the Dakar flagrante delicto court.

Marriage between two men

At the helm, Matar Diaw admits having invited his friends to his birthday party. However, he does not dispute either the celebration of his marriage with Yakhya Ndiaye, that night of October 19 in an apartment in Sacré-Coeur. The latter was the holder of two alliances and a chain, according to elements of the investigation. Despite Matar Diaw’s allegations of naming him as her lover, Yakhya disputes being gay.

10 condoms, make-up, HIV tests, …

In addition, after a search of the apartment, the police in Dieuppeul had seized 10 tests for HIV AIDS, condoms, lubricants, “bins-bines”, makeup boxes, women’s outfits, among others. . The police also noted the presence of several young people, shirtless, piled up on a bed in a room of the apartment.

The judge to continue his questioning while indicating that the material evidence found at the scene clearly shows two banners which are inscribed “Happy Household”, “Happy Birthday”.

Confessions

Matar Diaw, a tailor by trade, born in 1996 and due to celebrate his birthday, said: “TAll those I invited to the wedding share the same sexual inclination. Moreover we have particular signs to recognize us. But I haven’t had a relationship with any of them“, he said. The president of the tribunal to return to the charge to ask the why of the presence on the scene of two alliances and a chain.

Diaw replies that he was to marry the named Yahya Ndiaye who is his boyfriend. “Yahya is my girlfriend“, He blurted out.

Abdoulaye Hann, meanwhile, declares at the bar: “Ct is through my brother that I am invited to this anniversary. My brother told me Matar is his tailor. Once I got there I found the affair a little odd because all the guests were men. But I thought to myself that this is their problem. And that’s where the police landed. At first, I even thought they were abusers. Because one of them insulted me before calling me a homosexual.”

It was the turn of Mamadou Diéye, the only married man in the gang and father of a daughter, to tell his truths to the judge: “Matar Diaw is my tailor and that of my wife and my daughter”. And when the prosecutor is interested in his presence on the scene and why he was shirtless at the time of his arrest, he said: “Jjust took off my Jellaba to do my ablution. Because I had to pray. I even planned to bring my daughter and my wife. So if I knew Matar was a gay, I wasn’t going to think about bringing my family.”

The representative of the prosecution requested 2 years in prison against the accused.

The defense counsel have, in turn, requested the dismissal of the defendants for the purposes of prosecution, because the unnatural act is not constant. According to one of the defense lawyers, in this case Me Abou Abdoul Daff, even if the defendants admitted their homosexuality, they are not prosecuted for that. “Homosexuality is not repressed by Senegalese law,” noted the black dress.

Eyelashes, AIDS tests, lubricants

In his plea, Me Khalil Sèye specifies that it was in the bag of Moussa Seck, social worker, that we found the false eyelashes, lubricating gels, makeup boxes and HIV AIDS tests. “It is a pity, some of them are in deviance, we do not condone it, but we are obliged to seek their dismissal for the purposes of prosecution“Pleaded the black dress.

“In view of article 319 of the Senegalese Penal Code, I request a sentence of 2 years of firm imprisonment“Said the Prosecutor.

The verdict

At the end of the pleadings, the court put the case under advisement. The judgment will be rendered on November 6, 2020.

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