The former head of state, Laurent Gbagbo, set foot on Ivorian soil, Thursday June 17, 2021, at 4:32 pm, at Félix Houphouët-Boigny airport in Abidjan, 10 years old after being transferred to The Hague, to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The arrival of Mr. Gbagbo in the country is an opportunity to settle questions of national reconciliation, declared the deputy of Yopougon, Michel Gbagbo.

The President of the Republic, Alassane Ouattara, has decided to give the presidential pavilion to welcome Laurent Gbagbo.

Definitively acquitted on Wednesday March 30, 2021 of all charges by the ICC, Laurent Gbagbo and Blé Goudé expressed their desire to return to their country. For 10 years, he was tried, along with his former youth minister, Charles Blé Goudé, on several counts, including that of crimes against humanity.

Gbagbo was transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on November 29, 2011, after the post-election crisis that caused 3,000 deaths in Côte d’Ivoire.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse