{"id":28448,"date":"2020-10-30T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/?p=28448"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:58:09","slug":"weddings-candies-and-corpses-senegals-crazy-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/weddings-candies-and-corpses-senegals-crazy-homophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Weddings, Candies, and Corpses: Senegal\u2019s Crazy Homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

With an early-morning raid on a private apartment in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, the police interrupted the celebration of a wedding between two men<\/strong> and arrested dozens of men between 18 and 30 years.\u00a0According to most sources, 25 people ended up behind bars, but according to other media, 28 people were arrested. Police officers seized a good deal of alleged evidence to accuse the young men of “unnatural acts<\/em>“: wedding rings, condoms, lubricants, HIV tests, makeup, lipsticks, perfumes, and even wipes and soaps. “The arsenal for an orgy<\/em>” screams\u00a0the title<\/a> of one of the country’s main news websites, while others celebrate the arrest of “fags<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

With a total lack of respect for privacy, the police checked the cell phones and tablets of the people present at the party, uncovering gay pornographic images. They are also willing to bring this element before the judges, who could sentence all these men to five years in prison. Another solution, as for the ten men arrested in Touba<\/a>, s to collect the money to pay a kind of ransom bribe to the police. All this happens in a state that many European governments – in order to not grant protection to persecuted people –\u00a0describe as a “safe country<\/em>“<\/a> even for LGBTQIA people.<\/p>\n