Headlines: cheering crowd in Abidjan for Gbagbo's return
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The joy of supporters of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo after his arrival at Abidjan airport on June 17, 2021. © John Wessels / AFP
By: Norbert Navarro
8 mins
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Starting with the one close to the PDCI, the former single party, and it makes you wonder if this press is not, this morning, even more enthusiastic than that close to Laurent Gbagbo.
Which, one suspects, shows off, while the one close to President Ouattara is indignant, as we will see below.
"
Crowd, crowd, crowd to welcome Gbagbo, yesterday
", launches the front page of the newspaper
Le Bélier
.
From a photo of Une illustrating the popular jubilation at the passage of Laurent Gbagbo's procession, this colleague welcomes his return after: "
10 years of forced exile
".
Also close to the PDCI, Le Bélier, again, but this time Le Bélier Intrépide, indicates, on a photo of a human tide in delirium, that Laurent Gbagbo was "
triumphantly welcomed by the people
", and reports in a front page the message of welcome from president Bédié, president of the PDCI: “
Akwaba in the country, Laurent!
".
The word "
crowd
", therefore, on the front page, but also the word "
people
" on the front page of
L'Héritage
.
“
The people welcome their hero!
",
Launches this newspaper
"
pedéciste
", noting that Laurent Gbagbo"
mourns his mother, his brother Sangaré and the other disappeared of the FPI
".
Indignation of the press close to President Ouattara. Because Laurent Gbagbo's return did not go as planned, and in particular because on his arrival in Abidjan, the former president did not go through the presidential pavilion at the airport, where the were waiting for personalities:
To understand this indignation, first detour to the front page of the independent daily
L'Inter
.
Which underlines that the presidential pavilion had been: "
Offered by Ouattara
".
So ?
So, this close daily newspaper among the relatives of President Ouattara that is
Le Patriote
launches this expression: “
Oh shame!
"... For this colleague, no doubt, the former head of state returned"
with a knife between his teeth
"!
Go to war, Gbagbo? This is clearly not what the government daily Fraternité Matin retained, on the front page of which Laurent Gbagbo, all smiles, declares that he is "
happy to find Côte d'Ivoire and Africa
", and the same if "
as was to be expected, there were clashes between his supporters and the police
,"
says Frat Mat
.
But then, "
Why Gbagbo refused the presidential flag
"?
For a "
simple reason
", explains this daily close to Laurent Gbagbo that is the newspaper
Le Temps
: because the latter was "
informed that his supporters
(were)
gassed and chased by the police
(...)
So , for the respect of its militants and the Ivorians who came out in large numbers to celebrate it, he
(a)
refused (e) the honor of the
“presidential
flag
”.
Something to inspire this daily little suspect of hostility to Ivorian power that
is
L'Intelligent d'Abidjan
this formula in the form of a sigh: "
Gbagbo remains Gbagbo
".
Return feverish, which does not fail to underline the sub-regional press:
In neighboring Burkina Faso,
the daily Wakat Sera notes
that for the “
soldier
” Gbagbo, it was anything but (I quote) the return “
on the sly that some wanted to impose on his supporters
”.
His colleague Le Pays notes that
, "as if he were taking his revenge on history, Gbagbo signs his return to the fold when the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, known for having supported his adversary Alassane Dramane Ouattara, has mesh starting with Justice ”.
Franck Hermann Ekra hardly said anything else to Mediapart.
This PDCI framework
told this French online newspaper that the return of Laurent Gbagbo
“shows the failure of international actors to control the judicial agenda and the making of public opinion.
A proverb from our region teaches us that we do not stop the waves of the sea with our arms…
”,
declared to Mediapart this former
deputy
principal adviser
to the Commission dialogue, truth reconciliation in Côte d'Ivoire.
As
a source who knows these two men well put it
in
Le Figaro
, “
Ouattara and Gbagbo are both there.
The final that never ends is played out once again
”...
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