The situation in Côte d’Ivoire risks becoming entrenched in a sort of ‘non-democracy’ that tends to deny an electoral result recognized by the Independent Commission mandated by the United Nations.
But there is a self-proclaimed president who, supported by the ruling clan and the force of arms, does not want to leave a position he is abusively occupying.
And in this country with a ‘fragile’ democracy, this situation could easily and quickly spark a civil war.
The situation is delicate, and we have received from our friend Macairie Dagry a new testimony that we are pleased to offer you.
When L. Gbagbo calls upon his Freemason networks to defend him!
The announcement of the arrival in Abidjan of the two French lawyers, Rolland Dumas and Jacques Vergès, has created shock, confusion, and sharp criticism in France and Europe.
In judicial and Freemason circles, these criticisms have given way to indignation and denunciation of this suspect and questionable approach whose sole motivations seem to be greed and the pursuit of an international media showcase.
The questions everyone asks in Côte d’Ivoire and around the world remain the same. Why choose two French lawyers and not Ivorian ones? Is it for their membership in French Freemasonry? Or because one was president of the French constitutional council and Minister of Foreign Affairs under F. Mitterrand? Is it for the latter role that made him a key player in this France-Africa often denounced by the Gbagbo regime?
And for the other, was Gbagbo seduced by the fact that he defended Maurice Papon, Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, Klaus Barbie, etc., all accused of crimes against humanity, making him the lawyer of desperate causes? In an op-ed published by the daily Marianne (available on our website in the news section (January 2011), Master Philippe Bilger, Advocate General at the Paris Court of Appeal and Advocate General at the Paris Court of Assizes, writes this:
« They went over there, tasked by their client to support his cause, which law, equity, and the international community disavow. As should be, mandated under conditions that only call for a defense of complacency and servility, they have questioned French and international interference on one hand, and fraud on the other.
Do they themselves believe in these so predictable responses since they are condemned to fully embrace the thesis of the person who solicited them without the slightest free will since they agreed to position themselves in this grip, under his influence?
I am saddened, to say the least, that these two personalities – I know Jacques Vergès better than Roland Dumas whose smiling urbane manner has struck me the few times I’ve met him – have consented to put their hands and minds in this wasp nest where the truth seems so glaring.»
The French Freemasonry, for its part, is outraged and fully distances itself from the stances of these two lawyers. Roland Dumas has already been suspended from Freemasonry for his dubious role in the Elf affair and the Taiwan Frigates affair, then reinstated. Therefore, one can legitimately question his true motivations. How do Ivorian evangelicals, Pentecostals, and other Christians, who equate Freemasonry with witchcraft, live with this fraternity’s involvement in the Ivorian crisis? Are Gbagbo’s pastors and spiritual advisors also being manipulated by the Baker?
In a previous column titled “the seven mistakes of L. Gbagbo…”, we highlighted his strategic contradictions particularly in relation to France, which he pretends to stigmatize in front of his supporters that he manipulates. Once again, how to understand that the Baker who openly accuses France of wanting his downfall and doing everything to achieve it, once again calls upon French nationals to defend him against the international community.
The most pathetic thing about this manipulation is that it continues to work despite all its inconsistencies. For example, how to explain that the same “supporters” also called in Abidjan, “the Spoilers” (for their pronounced taste for spoiling everything, that is, committing abuses and other violence) who pour all their hate against France and the French applaud the arrival of these two Frenchmen. In reflecting, one can easily draw two conclusions. Either the FPI militants and their spoilers lack any sense of judgment and intellectual reasoning, which we strongly doubt. Or, they are only interested in the money that the Gbagbo regime gives to its militants, notably the “Spoilers,” to take to the streets and reign as “Absolute Master.”
The financial suffocation the Gbagbo regime is currently subjected to could then explain the numerous cancellations of marches initiated by Charles Blé Goudé. Most of these young Spoilers are unemployed, without income, and with no future prospects. Hence, they have turned these street demonstrations into a real business and thus secured sources of income. Either they help themselves to looted goods, particularly those of foreigners and preferably those of the French. Or, they are paid from the state’s public funds to vandalize or sow terror.
Gbagbo, who is doing everything to buy time by gradually introducing new actors and zones of uncertainty that he controls, hopes to prolong this tragic comedy for as long as possible. The ECOWAS mission, which had announced a rapid military intervention to oust Gbagbo from power, now seems willing to make several back-and-forths to him, under the pretext of prioritizing diplomacy. Indeed, the paths of diplomacy remain “impenetrable” and mysterious. Meanwhile, Abidjan counts its dead, missing, and wounded, and Côte d’Ivoire its political exiles.
