This Monday, October 3, 2011, the International Criminal Court has issued a statement that the Trial Chamber III granted the Prosecutor of the Republic Near this Court has `open an investigation into alleged crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC allegedly committed in Cote d'Ivoire since November 28, 2010.
The judges also asked the "Prosecutor to provide any additional information that is available to the crimes that may fall within the jurisdiction of the Court allegedly committed between 2002 and 2010." Following this news from `the ICC, President Laurent Gbagbo made the following observations:
I / Period of investigation
The authorization of the initiation of the investigation given by the Trial Chamber only for the period running from November 28, 2010. President Gbagbo noted that this period is requested by Mr. Ouattara, a party to the conflict.
President Laurent Gbagbo asked about the reason for the authorization of the initiation of the investigation concerns only the period requested by his opponent, Mr. Ouattara, while the chamber is also interested in crime since 2002 which is the starting year of the armed rebellion that claims to be of Mr. Ouattara. Why did she not wait to have enough information on the remaining period of the crisis for which it is seeking additional information. The junction of the facts between the two periods is obvious, it would have been just that the House receives all information about the two periods which in fact form one, since the post election situation was only picnic as there have been others since the armed rebellion of 2002, which everyone knows now that she was acting on behalf of Ouattara. The alignment of the Court over the will of one party to the conflict casts doubt on his decision. This suspicion is strengthened when one takes into account the troubling circumstances of initiation of this investigation
B / The circumstances of the initiation
President Laurent Gbagbo would inform the national and international public opinion that the permit investigation took place the day after the visit of Michel Mercier, the Minister of Justice and Minister of Justice and the freedoms of the Government French, Thursday, September 29, 2011. During this visit, he met with the President of the Court, Mr. and Mrs. BLOOD SONG Hyan the Chief Registrar, Ms Silvana Arbia.
This visit took place immediately following that made by the emissary of the Ivorian Government, the Minister of Human Rights, who also traveled to The Hague headquarters of the ICC to meet with officials of the Court after been received previously by the French authorities. One remembers his statements to the press that was, on transfer of President Laurent Gbagbo to the ICC ` was the condition of reconciliation in Cote d'Ivoire and would cool down the debate on the parliamentary elections .
Finally, the initiation of the investigation comes just days after the first meeting with Ouattara that the President has finally deigned to political parties and groups that are close to President L. Gbagbo to allow the relaunch political debate, the sine qua non of a true reconciliation
The visits of the effluent of the Ivorian Government and the emissary of President SARKOZY, just days before the authorization of the initiation of the investigation can not but feeding that suspicion about the credibility of the decision. These visits confirmed the political role that it sought want to play to the Court. President Gbagbo sees the presence of the French President's envoy in The Hague visible manifestation of the political pressure that Mr. SARKOZY has on the court. The latter continues to use state power that the French people entrusted to him for working against him and the Ivorian people.
In addition, there should be a worry about the potential impact of an investigation sufficiently politicized judiciary on the political debate that seems to begin in Cote d'Ivoire. President Gbagbo expresses serious doubts on the will of his opponents to go for national reconciliation, however, say they seek.
Ultimately, President Gbagbo, remained committed to justice that stands on the truth of the facts. President Gbagbo is that the world knows what happened in his country. He expects that he explains why, when he was democratically elected in 2000, an armed rebellion which we now know all the sponsors, has attacked his country in the indifference of the international community. He also wondered why the French army has killed Ivorians in 2004 and 2011 in the silence of the world. President Gbagbo is waiting shed light on all these crimes and all others that are trying to hide. He waits for the right to be told and that justice is done not just to please the winners of the illegal war that has been delivered, but that finally the truth is finally known on the Ivorian crisis since 2002. It is to that end, he wrote to the Secretary General of the UN, Mr Ban Ki Moon, calling for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry has `the effect of establishing that killings of women suspected of Abobo and determine if the authors and sponsors. That's why he denounced the activism of his opponents declared that aims to exploit the rule of Justice for political debate, he has repeatedly called the same bombs.
Being fully engaged in the fight for the sovereignty of African nations, President Gbagbo protested against the fact that the courts Ivorian expression of that sovereignty be relieved simply by the will of President SARKOZY, an important issue who are interested primarily in the Ivorian people. It is good to know the opinion that the Department of Human Rights of UNOCI also had reservations about the possibility of a transfer of President Laurent Gbagbo to the ICC, since it is not a threat to social peace in Cote d'Ivoire.
Finally, President Laurent Gbagbo considers as belonging to defamation, the statements relayed by some media, including Agence France Presse (AFP) under which the post-election crisis was born following his refusal to recognize the victory of Mr. Ouattara . These words make responsible without trial and began his honor. It reiterates that he did not self-proclaimed winner of the presidential election. It was recognized the winner by a sovereign decision of his country Constitutional Council that has invested him also President of the Republic. He has instructed his lawyers to analyze the possibility of legal action against the perpetrators of such claims.
Minister Justin Katinan KONE Representative and Spokesperson for President Gbagbo
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