"Don't forget to buy the…": C.T. Sonko and M. Fall remanded in custody on charges of criminal conspiracy and unnatural acts

C. T. Sonko, a 27-year-old restaurateur from Zac-Mbao, and M. Fall, a 22-year-old tailor from Médina-Gounass, have been remanded in custody after an altercation in Sam-Notaire, where they had arranged to meet through Snapchat on November 2. A. L. Mbaye, a local shopkeeper, says Fall told him that Sonko was pursuing a romantic relationship and sexual relations with him, and Mbaye then took both men to the Guédiawaye central police station. Mbaye says he found an envelope containing 14 condoms, pills and lubricant in Sonko’s bag. Sonko acknowledges the case concerns an accusation of homosexuality but denies engaging in such acts; both men are due before the Pikine-Guédiawaye flagrante delicto court on Monday.