Senegalese Embassy Challenges Reports on Diplomat Beaten by Quebec Police as ‘False’

Senegalese Embassy Challenges Reports on Diplomat Beaten by Quebec Police as ‘False’
A Sûreté du Québec police car is shown in Lévis, Que., Oct. 12, 2012. The Canadian Press/Jacques Boissinot
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The Senegalese Embassy in Ottawa has come to the defence of one of its diplomats allegedly beaten by police in Quebec, characterizing a provincial rental board ruling against her as one-sided and asserting media coverage of the case has distracted from harms she purportedly faced.

The embassy released a statement on Twitter on Friday questioning media reports based on court documents ordering Niang Oumou Kalsoum Sall to pay a former landlord more than $45,000 for damage to a furnished home she occupied from Nov. 1, 2018, to Oct. 31, 2020.