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Laurent Gbagbo's return ten years after his fall puts Côte d'Ivoire under tension

2021-06-21T07:49:20.290Z


REPORT - It is almost in "miracle", after ten years spent in the nets of international justice, that the former Ivorian president, finally cleared in The Hague, was welcomed Thursday by his supporters in Abidjan, in an electric climate .


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He arrived on time. Thursday, ten years after his departure, Laurent Gbagbo returned to Ivorian soil. In a strange choreography. Expected by his friends and traditional rulers, the former president remained invisible behind the tinted windows of a car. The Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), his party, promised a triumphant welcome for the president's return. The police, deployed en masse from early in the morning, had dampened enthusiasms. On the edge of the "VGE", the large boulevard which leads to the airport, tear gas canisters were fired at the excessively large groups. In popular neighborhoods reputed to have been acquired by the former president, the police chased the demonstrators all day. Sometimes violently. According to sources close to the FPI, there were several injured.

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On the sides of the road, small groups, loincloths bearing the effigy of their hero, still manage to stir.

“We want to see him.

He is the fourteenth apostle

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Source: lefigaro

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