Ivory Coast: the State and the FPI-GOR discussed the modalities of the return of Laurent Gbagbo

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, here at the ICC in January 2019. ANP / AFP / File

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A pro-Gbagbo FPI delegation led by Assoa Adou was received on Monday by Interior and Security Minister Vagondo Diomandé.

A new meeting intended to prepare the modalities of Laurent Gbagbo's return to Côte d'Ivoire.

A return of which we still do not know the date.

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With our correspondent in Abidjan,

Pierre Pinto

Assoa Adou

, Danon Djédjé, Odette Sauyet for the FPI were received by the Minister of the Interior and Security Vagondo Diomande and his colleague from Reconciliation Kouadio Konan Bertin. The purpose of the meeting, according to the participants, was to put the FPI delegation in touch with "

the great commandments

", represented by the director of police, General Youssouf Kouyaté, with a view to working in the next few years. days on the security aspect of the return of Laurent Gbagbo: the maintenance of order on D-day but above all the security of the former president who is entitled, by law, to a protection service "

of ten 'agents placed under the authority of an aide-de-camp, senior officer of the Forces and of defense and security

”.

"

Soon, the technical units will meet,

 " said Minister Vagondo Diomande at the end of the meeting.

"

We are now in the operational phase

," added Assoa Adou.

Discussions on security which are added to those on the question of the sentence to twenty years in prison of the former president by the Ivorian justice.

A sword of Damocles against which the close guard of Laurent Gbagbo wants guarantees before his return.

A return for which no date has been announced.

"

The date, at the FPI they do not seem to have the slightest idea,

" says a member of the Ivorian executive.

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