Ten years after its shipment as a bulky package to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Laurent Gbagbo returned to the fold aboard Brussel Airline at around 2 p.m. Seen from the ordinary Ivorian, the event as important as the Big Bang, should be visible from the international space station. The fervor is at its height. But is it really the real Laurent Gbagbo who returns?
Left like a hawk with sharp talons, the leader of the FPI returns, like a white dove, an olive branch in his hand. An ideological shift? In any case, the patriotic leader has only one slogan left to his mouth: “national reconciliation”. And it works because according to polls, Simone’s husband is twice as popular as President Alassane Ouattara, who should receive him at the palace or, at least at the airport, before taking his flight to Accra and then Paris.
The two protagonists of the second round of the 2010 presidential elections have agreed on the terms of this return until the itinerary, timed, posters and slogans and the septuagenarian diet sent by full endowments in expenses of mouth and miscellaneous. The informal ADO-Gbagbo protocol is sealed with an order: “no overflow”!
Cleared by the ICC and unofficially by his sentence to 20 years in prison in the case of the break-up of the BCEAO agency, the former president will have to have the contract honored by the young patriots of the past who took ten in The belly. Weaned from their leader, Charles -Blé Goudé, still deprived of a passport, the Zouglou generation will come overwhelmingly to welcome the unexpected winner of 10 years of ill-crafted procedures from the ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, in pain, the proof of the innocence of their leader. During this time, in the camp opposite, any overflow will be noted. The executive director of RHDP, Adama Bictogo, calls for parallelism of forms.
“In 2003, when President Alassane Ouattara was due to return to Côte d’Ivoire, there was no popular reception. We wanted to organize a popular reception, we were prohibited. Moreover, President Alassane Ouattara wished, at the time, to return soberly, because we were going through a difficult period “, he was emboldened. But, it’s clear, times are different. Men too. Gbagbo will multiply the crowds from the airport to the party headquarters. Everyone fears that this outstanding dancer does not perform a few steps of Zouglou on his journey which will lead him to the interior of the country to meditate on his mother’s grave in this West where, clearly, there is nothing again apart from the asphalt roads of emergence.
