Former Ivory Coast President - Laurent Gbagbo being Arrested

Forces loyal to the president-elect Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, managed to capture the former President Laurent Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, on Monday (11 / 4), and have brought them to their headquarters.

Quattaea spokeswoman, Anne Ouloto, told AFP that the couple had taken to the Golf Hotel, where Ouattara based, at about at 13:00 GMT (20:00 GMT), shortly after their arrest.

“He is here with his wife and his son Michel. I can see them now,” said Ouloto, speaking by phone from the former site of a resort on the edge of the lagoon, which has the now turned into an armed camp that is protected by the former rebel army and UN peacekeepers.

The United Nations have confirmed that the arrest Gbagbo. “The UN mission in Ivory Coast confirmed that former President Laurent Gbagbo have been surrendered to troops Alassane Ouattara, and now in their custody,” UN spokesman Farhan Haq.

Haq added that the UN mission knew as UNOCI was “giving protection and security in accordance with its mandate”. He explained to Reuters that UNOCI is mandated to protect the political gamblers in Ivory Coast, which includes Gbagbo.

Meanwhile, still linked, one French government source denied reports that the French soldiers who had captured the strong man Gbagbo Ivory Coast, when troops loyal to his rival, Ouattara, attacking his base. “Mr. Ouattara Gbagbo was arrested by the army, it is true, but not by French special forces, who did not enter the fence residence (Gbagbo),”the source said.

With the capture of Gbagbo, also ended the political crisis sparked by last November’s presidential election, when President Gbagbo did not want to admit defeat and hand over power to the winner of the international community recognized the presidential election, Ouattara.

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