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‘Nous étions attaqués par deux individus. Le premier menaçait ma copine pour soutirer son portable alors que l’autre m’attaquait directement avec un couteau. J’ai tordu son bras pour arracher le couteau et je lui ai assené un coup au moment où il voulait sortir une autre arme dans sa poche gauche. Lorsque je les ai aperçus, j’ai demandé à ma copine, Marie Thérèse Samb, de se mettre derrière moi’, se défend le prévenu. Après avoir donné le coup mortel à son protagoniste, il affirme être parti aviser ses parents qui se sont rendus sur les lieux pour constater le drame. Les déclarations du sieur Diatta sont corroborées par les témoins qui ont défilé à la barre, avec notamment la copine du prévenu, Marie Thérèse Samb.

L’avocat de la partie civile, dans sa plaidoirie, a relevé des mensonges sur les témoignages du sieur Touré et même sur l’enquête de la gendarmerie.

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As I gather information about the past, I am amazed that today’s towns and communities often had different names in the past.

It seems each generation dubbed the sites with names they preferred over the old names. Here are a few samples of such changes about an area we pass through each time we go towards Denver and on north.

Today’s Huerfano County, (Spanish for ‘orphan’) located in southern Colorado, contains the towns of Walsenburg, San Isabel, Westcliffe, La Veta and Rye. It dates to the 1700s and has a fascinating history. The Huerfano River that dominates the county originates in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, eventually emptying into the Arkansas River below Pueblo. The area was a fur trapper’s paradise in its early days with sky-high mountains and fast rushing streams teeming with beaver and other fur-bearing animals.

Even the river had many different names before it received its present moniker. Seems each explorer who saw the beautiful valley wanted it to carry his own name.

Actually, the final name comes from a volcanic hill by the same name located halfway between Colorado city and Walsenburg. The hill can be seen while traveling Interstate 25 north.

History tells us that the first Americans passed through the area in 1739, over an old Indian trail across the Sangre de Cristo mountains to Taos to conduct trade. The trail became known as Trapper’s Trail, and was used by the mountain men to sell their winter’s cache of furs each spring.

Numerous forts were built over time by both the Spanish and Americans to protect travelers. After 1840, the fur trade declined and the trail began to serve other types of commerce. The area eventually favored the South during the Civil War, but managed to do business with both sides by selling much-needed beef for the various military detachments passing through.

Among the many early settlements once located in the area were Butte Valley, Huerfano Canyon, Huerfano Crossing later changed to Badito in 1865.

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