The president of Burkina Faso overthrown in a military coup on Monday, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, "
is physically fine
", according to a senior source within his party who recounted the circumstances in which he was forced to leave power. .
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"
President Kaboré is physically fine, but I can't say anything about his state of mind
" and "
he has a doctor at his disposal
", this source from the People's Movement for Progress told AFP on Wednesday January 26. (MPP). She said that Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was "
still in the hands of the army, not in a military camp, but in a presidential villa under house arrest
" and had "
access to his cell phone, under the surveillance of his jailers of course
". “
It was he who indeed wrote the resignation letter published by national television, but I cannot say under what conditions he wrote it
,” added the same source.
She then recounted the film of the events before writing this letter. "
He was not arrested in the early hours
" of the action of the mutineer soldiers: "
his private residence was surrounded by the mutineers, his close guard had to use strategy by exfiltrating him on board a unmarked vehicle to put it in a safe place
,” the source said. "
He was not in the convoy which was riddled with bullets
" and whose three vehicles had been seen on Monday morning by an AFP journalist and which, according to the source of the former ruling party, "
were those of his guards who deceived the vigilance of the mutineers
". "
It was later and under the pressure of the mutineers, that his guards - notably the gendarmes - had to leave him in their hands (the putschists), and rally to them in the process
,” she said. “
The gendarmerie could only rally because the whole army was willing to dismiss the president from office
,” she said.
Shortly before the announcement of the putsch and while the fate of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was unclear on Monday after two days of mutiny in the barracks, the MPP had denounced in a press release "
an abortive attempt on the assassination
" of the president.
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was overthrown by soldiers led by a lieutenant-colonel, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, president of a junta called the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR) which took over the leadership of this country undermined by jihadist violence.