Demba Diop

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Demba Diop (born May 10, 1927 in Bogué ( Mauritania ), † February 3, 1967 in Thiès ) was a Senegalese politician. He was assassinated.

Life

Demba Diop took up the profession of teacher, which he exercised since 1947, interrupted by service in the French army. His professional career took him to the Collège moderne in Thiès and to the école régionale in Mbour . There he married his wife Caroline Faye Diop . In 1960 Diop was elected to the first Senegalese national assembly as a member of the ruling Parti Socialiste . Under the presidency of Léopold Sédar Senghor , he was Minister of Education from December 19, 1962, and Minister for Youth and Sport from December 9, 1963.

In 1966 Diop was elected Deputy Mayor of Mbour.

As a teenager, Diop was successful in throwing discus and helped found the football club Stade Mbour .

Death and aftermath

Demba Diop left the prefecture on February 3, 1967 after meeting the governor in Thiès when he was killed by a knife bomber in the parking lot at 10 a.m. It soon turned out that the killer was acting on behalf of two local political rivals of the deputy mayor. The assassin was sentenced to death on March 18, 1967. Both backers received long prison terms. With President Senghor declining to pardon, this murder resulted in one of the few executions in independent Senegal.

The funeral of Diop in Mbour, as a state funeral in the presence of President Senghor, was an act of national mourning.

His widow Caroline Faye Diop , who had been politically active as a member of the National Assembly since 1963, was later also a minister. After her death in 1992, one of the largest stadiums in Dakar was named Stade Demba Diop after her husband .

In Mbour, the Lycée Demba Diop was named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ousmane Camara: Mémoires d'un juge africain: itinéraire d'un homme libre , Demba Diop p. 158 in the Google book search
  2. ^ Lycée Demba Diop on the Internet
personal data
SURNAME Diop, Demba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogué
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1967
Place of death Thiès