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Ivory Coast: Prosecutor details charges against Soro


Three days after issuing an international arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro, public prosecutor Richard Adou held a press conference at the Abidjan court of first instance. He detailed the charges against the candidate for the 2020 presidential election.

In his statement on national television on December 24, Richard Adou spoke of a sound recording incriminating Guillaume Soro in the charges of “ attempted attack on state authority “.

The tape was opened for investigation and the prosecutor played it on Thursday afternoon. It is of poor quality, but we do hear a man, presented as Guillaume Soro, talking to other people about the preparations for an armed attack. He said he had the support of a zone commander from the rebellion in an attempt to destabilize the regime.

We have the army. In fact, you have to minimize human costs, blood all that. We will look at the situation. If it is favorable to a popular insurrection, so much the better “Is heard in the recording.

Both in Ivory Coast and abroad, some people close to him [Guillaume Soro ndlr] did not hesitate to amplify the discredit on the institutions in place. These acts, far from being isolated, constituted a conspiracy which was to lead to a civil and military insurrection. The elements in the possession of the intelligence services, in particular an audio recording clearly establish that the project was to be implemented shortly.


Prosecutor Richard Adou presents the elements against Guillaume Soro

26-12-2019
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Edouard Dropsy


The poor quality of the recording is proof, said prosecutor Richard Adou. ” If it was a montage, we could have made it more audible. That’s why I apologized at the end of the audio. If it was a montage, we would have done very clear things. We could even have made a film!

For the Soro camp, the recording dates from 2017

On the side of Guillaume Soro, it was again master Affoussi Bamba who spoke, saying that this recording, if it is indeed authentic, dates from 2017 and is linked to an obscure spy case of which Guillaume Soro is the victim: “ This audio is disconcertingly light, let’s face it. I would point out and insist that it dates from the year 2017. Why bury it today almost three years later? And why is the audio incomplete?

His lawyer continues by explaining the circumstances of the recording: “ when Mister Guillaume Kigbafori Soro boasts of the support of his ex-“Com-zones”, this assertion has no other objectives than to draw the worms from the nose of the spy of the day who accompanied Mister Francis Perez, the named Olivier Bazol of his name of bearded man. But also a message to the Abidjan regime.

Maître Affoussi also announced that she would give dose response elements ” homeopathic ” in this story that still promises to last.

On the arrest warrant itself, the prosecutor indicated that Interpol had been seized and that if there was nothing to compel countries to execute it, it would still be surprising, under international agreements, that it is not followed by facts.

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