The plane carrying former president Laurent Gbagbo is on its way to Félix Houphouët-Boigny airport in Abidjan Port Bouët, on board the commercial flight which took off at 11:36 (9: 36TU) in Brussels to Abidjan
According to the communication from the Communication Commission for the return of the former president, Mr. Gbagbo completed the boarding formalities at Brussels airport, before the departure of the Airbus 330 from Brussels to Abidjan. The plane will land at 16:26 minutes in Abidjan, after 41 minutes late, we learned.
It is a hundred personalities including customary chiefs installed in the courtyard of the presidential pavilion, who will be authorized to welcome him when he gets off the plane at the FHB airport in Abidjan.
Activists mobilized since the morning around this place were dispersed by the security forces with tear gas.
The President of the Republic, Alassane Ouattara, decided to give the presidential pavilion to welcome Laurent Gbagbo, Thursday, June 17, 2021. He also authorized that the organizing committee installs in the pavilion, tarpaulins for the notabilities who would like to come, announced Monday, Dr Assoa Adou, at the headquarters of his party in Abidjan Riviera.
Definitively acquitted on March 30, 2021 of all charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé expressed their desire to return to their country. For 10 years, they were tried on several counts, including that of crimes against humanity.
Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse