Law enforcement around the homes of opponents in Côte d'Ivoire: where are we?

Henri Konan Bédié on September 20, 2020 in Abidjan (illustrative image).

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In Abidjan, since the proclamation of the provisional results giving the re-election for a controversial third term of Alassane Ouattara, events are accelerating.

The police were deployed this Tuesday, November 3 in the afternoon around the homes of several opponents, following the creation yesterday of a National Transitional Council and the violence of the electoral period.

What do we know, at the present time, of the situation of the various leaders?

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With our correspondent in Abidjan,

Pierre Pinto

At the end of the afternoon, there were still

several police vehicles in

front of Henri Konan Bédié's home in Cocody.

A few minutes earlier, the police broke into the residence of the president of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI).

Several senior party officials who were there and whose number are unknown were arrested.

Among them was the number two of the PDCI, Maurice Kakou Guikahué.

On the side of the authorities, it is said to have " 

accompanied

 " these officials to their homes.

Officials who remain in any case unreachable this Tuesday evening.

According to several sources, Henri Konan Bédié himself is still at home.

In any case, the tension around this Cocody residence has been rising all afternoon from 2 p.m.

► See also: Côte d'Ivoire: President Ouattara reelected for a contested third term

Riot police surrounded the home of the dean of the opposition, as a press conference prepared and several dozen journalists were present.

Journalists who have been pushed firmly out of the perimeter.

Some of the journalists were then allowed to return for a few minutes, before being asked to leave the scene again, about an hour before the police intervened.



Police devices are also deployed in front of the residences of Pascal Affi N'Guessan, Assoa Adou and Albert Toikeusse Mabri in Marcory.

The president of the legal Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) and spokesperson for the opposition coalition, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, is, according to his wife, still at home at his residence in Riviera 4, surrounded by the police.

And then, confusion around the situation of the president of the Union for Democracy and Peace in Côte d'Ivoire (UDPCI) Albert Toikeusse Mabri.

It is not known whether he is at his Marcory residence in front of which police forces have been deployed.

As for Assoa Adou, the secretary general of the FPI Gbagbo told us that the police were at the entrance to his courtyard and his street.

And that they blocked access.

► See also: Côte d'Ivoire: the opposition announces the creation of a National Transitional Council

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