An investigating judge has been appointed to investigate the conditions of the death in April 2011 in Abidjan of the leader of the “invisible commando”, Ibrahim Coulibaly, who fell under the bullets of Ivorian soldiers. In this case, the former Prime Minister is the subject of a complaint for torture and assassination filed in May 2020.
Under what conditions died Ibrahim Coulibaly, known as IB, on April 27, 2011 in the concession of Abobo in which he had entrenched himself? This is the question that French justice will have to try to answer.
At that time, the Ivorian government claimed that the leader of the “invisible commando”, who had made life difficult for Laurent Gbagbo’s men, had refused to lay down their arms after the fall of the former president, and that the soldiers had were forced to open fire, killing Ibrahim Coulibaly, his brother Soualio and Issiaka Timité.
This version was called into question from the outset by those close to IB, who ensure that he intended to surrender. According to the complaint filed in 2020 on behalf of his daughter, IB was arrested, tortured, his body left lifeless, on the initiative of Guillaume Soro, who allegedly set up a ” stalking ” and one ” carefully prepared ambush to get rid of his rival.
For the plaintiffs, this judicial information is a ” huge step forward “. Reached by AFP, Guillaume Soro’s French lawyer, Me Binsard, denounces for his part a ” slanderous and political procedure, an attempt to falsely rewrite history “.
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