Because the proclamation of the preliminary outcomes giving the re-election to a controversial third time period of Alassane Ouattara, the occasions in Abidjan are accelerating. Police had been dispatched on Tuesday afternoon, November 3, across the houses of a number of opponents following the creation yesterday by a Nationwide Transitional Council and the violence throughout the election interval. What do we all know at current concerning the state of affairs of the varied leaders?
as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
By late afternoon it was nonetheless there extra police automobiles in entrance of Henri Konan Bédié’s residence in Cocody. A couple of minutes earlier, police broke into the residence of the president of the Democratic Celebration of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI). A number of senior celebration functionaries who had been there and whose numbers are unknown had been arrested. Amongst them was PDCI’s quantity two, Maurice Kakou Guikahué.
On the a part of the authorities, it’s mentioned to have “accompanied” these officers to their houses. Officers who’re in any case inaccessible this Tuesday evening. In keeping with a number of sources, Henri Konan Bédié himself remains to be at residence. In any case, the thrill surrounding this Cocody residence rose all afternoon from 6 p.m.
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Insurgent police surrounded the house of the opposition dean as a press convention was being ready and several other dozen journalists had been in attendance. Journalists who’ve been pushed firmly out of the perimeter. A few of the journalists had been then allowed to return for a couple of minutes earlier than being requested to go away the place once more, about an hour earlier than the police intervened.
Police tools has additionally been deployed in entrance of Pascal Affi N’Guessan, Assoa Adou and Albert Toikeusse Mabri houses in Marcory. The president of the authorized Ivorian Individuals’s Entrance (FPI) and spokesman for the opposition coalition, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, remains to be at residence in his residence in Riviera 4, surrounded by police, based on his spouse.
After which confusion concerning the state of affairs of the President of the Union for Democracy and Peace in Ivory Coast (UDPCI) Albert Toikeusse Mabri. It isn’t recognized if he’s in his Marcory residence, in entrance of which police forces have been deployed.
As for Assoa Adou, the final secretary of the FPI Gbagbo informed us that the police had been on the entrance to his courtyard and his avenue. And that they blocked entry.
► See additionally: Côte d’Ivoire: the opposition publicizes the creation of a Nationwide Transitional Council
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