Justice at home (Salla GUEYE)
At the Dakar courthouse, some come to seek justice. Others…the material. Ibrahima comes there every day to work. A surface technician, he knows the place like the back of his hand. Corridors, offices, stairs… and obviously also the fountain and air conditioner compressors. One Sunday, taking advantage of the Sunday calm, he decided to transform his workplace into a self-service. Bad casting. Because stealing from a court where you already work is a bit like attempting a robbery at the police station while wearing your badge.
Caught with his hand in the compressor by gendarmes and colleagues suddenly promoted to the anti-do-it-yourself brigade, Ibrahima first tried ecological defense. He would have simply collected material from the waste collection point. A sort of citizen recycling.
But in court, recycled versions rarely pass quality control.
Verdict: six months, one of which is closed. To say that you can sometimes get around the law, but rarely in the building where she lives.
