“You asked for your father, your father is here”

Eight years after leaving Côte d’Ivoire, Charles Blé Goudé, 50, obtained permission to return to the country, a year after his acquittal by international justice. When he got off the plane on Saturday November 26, he was greeted by a dozen people, including the former first lady Simone Gbagbo, before going to Yopougon, a working-class town in the Ivorian economic capital where he found his supporters.

In an energetic speech of about forty minutes, Charles Blé Goudé considered that his ” to have to “ was “to support the peace process” and sketched the outlines of a return to the political arena. “I’m not passing through, I came here for good. We will hold a political meeting on this same square where I will discuss all the subjects. (…) Your boss has arrived, he’s here. You are no longer orphans”he launched, all smiles, facing the crowd chanting “Presi, Presi”.

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