Diourbel: BFEM candidate sentenced to two years in prison for violent theft

A 19-year-old student in his final year of middle school and a BFEM candidate was sentenced to two years in prison by Diourbel’s flagrante delicto court. He was accused of assaulting a woman in Bambey on September 6, 2026, and stealing her phone, which was allegedly used to buy 1,000 CFA francs’ worth of fuel through Wave and make a fraudulent transfer of 28,000 CFA francs. The transactions reportedly helped investigators identify him, and the victim’s daughter recognized him two days after the incident; the student denied the charges, claiming mistaken identity. To sit his end-of-year exam while held at Diourbel prison, he will need an exceptional authorization to be escorted out.