Gbagbo trial: "With an acquittal, the file will be definitively closed"

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Charles Blé Goudé and Laurent Gbagbo, in October 2010 during the presidential campaign, before the post-electoral crisis. AFP / Sia Kambou

By: Laurent Correau Follow

Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé are now almost free. The appeal chamber of the International Criminal Court released late Thursday afternoon a decision awaited for several months. It partially lifts the conditions imposed on their release. To fully understand this decision, RFI offers you the insight of its correspondent in The Hague, Stéphanie Maupas, who is also the author of "Joker of the powerful: the great novel of the International Criminal Court".

  • Ivory Coast
  • International justice
  • Laurent Gbagbo
  • Gbagbo trial
  • Charles Blé Goudé