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Laurent Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast on June 17, according to his party. Laurent Gbagbo, acquitted by the ICC on March 31, has lived in Brussels for two years. His return after a ten-year absence is especially waiting for his followers. For several days, a debate has raged in Abidjan about what form it should take: discreet as the authorities and the RHDP, the ruling party want, or popular and triumphant as the FPI and its allies want?
as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
“We urge all Ivorians not to fall into superfluous triumphalism. Whether we are RHDP, PDCI or FPI, we are not looking for a winner or a loser in reconciliation, says RHDP’s CEO Adama Bictogo on Monday. prior to the announcement of the date by pro-Gbagbo staff.
For his part, Laurent Gbagbo’s spokesman, Justin Koné Katinan, confirms, this Tuesday at RFI, that the issue of the return format has not yet been raised in the discussions that have been going on for several weeks between the envoys of Laurent Gbagbo and the government. But according to him, this return will not be able to take place discreetly.
Transport and housing issues were resolved
However, other problems have been resolved. First, in early April, President Alassane Ouattara had publicly stated that the transportation costs for Laurent Gbagbo and his family for his return would be covered by the Ivorian state. A plan from the republic can even be chartered at the moment, the reconciliation minister said yesterday.
According to KKB, the house where Laurent Gbagbo will have been identified and his bank account frozen for ten years has “already been released or is being released”. For the rest, employees, personal security, compensation, the former president will benefit from what is prescribed by law.
The question remains about Laurent Gbagbo’s 20-year prison sentence, which is tried in the absence of the Ivorian courts in the so-called “breakage of BECEAO” case. “A political condemnation that will be resolved politically,” according to Justin Kone Katinan.
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