“I lied”: Karamo Cissé Ndiaye’s New Confession About Aminata Sy’s Murder

Seventeen-year-old Aminata Sy was found dead inside a bag on October 25 in the Lao Demba neighborhood of Podor, with her hands tied and her face covered by a scarf. Her boyfriend, Karamo Cissé Ndiaye, also known as Abdou Karim Ndiaye, was arrested after a brief escape; he first cited a dispute over 350,000 CFA francs and her refusal to marry him, then admitted strangling her with his hands and striking her with a scarf to keep her from screaming. Autopsy findings contradicted his initial account that she had hit her head against a wall. The Saint-Louis prosecutor’s office requested a judicial investigation for murder and that he be placed in pretrial detention.