Senegalese Citizen Confronts Ex-President Sall on Royal Air Maroc Flight

According to Senegalese media, Aïssa Kamara, the Senegalese citizen on board this flight, questioned former Senegalese President Macky Sall about the deadly events that occurred in March 2021 and June 2023, before the plane landed at Casablanca airport. The 62-year-old Senegalese woman explains in a video shared on social media that she simply asked the former president for an explanation.

"I didn’t expect apologies, but explanations. He didn’t answer, he looked at his shoes, his wife started insulting me obscenely... ", continued the passenger, before adding: "I returned his insults. Then the bodyguards came at me from behind... And a dozen companions, they insulted me and I returned the insults".

This version of the facts is denied by Macky Sall’s wife. "My husband was focused on reading a book when this lady violently confronted him and accused him of being a murderer. He did not react," she detailed, indicating that she and her husband were not accompanied by any bodyguards, as the Senegalese passenger had claimed.

Following the incident, the Senegalese national was arrested by the airport police in Casablanca, alerted by the captain of the Moroccan airline’s plane. She was released the same day and allowed to continue her journey to Paris, after the intervention of the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Senegalese embassy in Rabat.