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INFO THE POINT. The former boss of Air Senegal has been advising Marine Le Pen on an ad hoc basis since 2017. He is the organizer of her meeting with Macky Sall.
By Charles Sapin
© Sebastien Leban
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VShid behind thin dark glasses, the man follows Marine Le Pen’s delegation through the streets of Dakar. At a safe distance, always. Way to avoid being inadvertently in the field of photographers or selfies that the Senegalese demand from the leader of the National Rally on her way. If he does not flee the light, Philippe Bohn has made a specialty of placing himself against the light. “I’m in the shadows, I always have been,” says the sixty-year-old, who is close to most past and present African heads of state: from Joseph Kabila to Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo, from Ali Bongo to Gabon to Paul Kagame in Rwanda via Thabo Mbeki in South Africa. Without forgetting, of course, Macky Sall, the president of Senegal since 2012. A “friend”, who has c…