The day after the publication of the results of the presidential election that won the first round of the outgoing head of state Patrice Talon, the interior minister attributes the murderous violence to “certain political actors”. He accuses them of having planned a comprehensive destabilization plan that has been thwarted.
In a brief statement read to the press early in the morning, the interior minister made it clear that those who demonstrated on April 6 wanted to remove Patrice Talon from power and install a transitional government.
According to him, terrorist acts were planned in Cotonou, Porto-Novo, Abomey-Calavi and Parakou. He explains that the barricades that were erected to block the two axes that connect south to north were intended to cut the country in two. Some sponsors are arrested, others on the run. They are accused of having recruited mercenaries, youths and hunters whom they armed with shotguns and weapons of war.
“Writers gifted in fabrications” for the opposition
Minister Sacca Lafia excludes the army and police. The shots heard would be warning shots. This detail on the balance sheet, 21 wounded on the side of the Security and Defense Forces. On the side of the civilian victim, the minister said: “There are reports of two assailants losing their lives, but no body was found and no death was registered.”
“Talon’s government is teeming with writers gifted in fabrications and lies,” mocked an opponent who said he was waiting for the next episode.
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