.- The new president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, said today that his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, who was deposed by force, reluctant to acknowledge his defeat at the polls, should be tried in his country, but also by the International Criminal Court (CPI). In an interview with TV channel "France 24" Ouattara said Gbagbo must face justice ivory and also requested "that is tried by the International Criminal Court" because some crimes within its jurisdiction.
He said that accusations of corruption and the "seizure of power after the election results" can be settled in court in Ivory Coast, but there are "war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of blood." "We ask that Laurent Gbagbo and tried by the International Criminal Court," repeated the new head of state, who took office yesterday, six months after his election and after election conflict with his predecessor that has caused at least 3,000 dead.
Gbagbo was captured on April 11 in Abidjan by the troops of Ouattara, thanks in particular to the support of the French soldiers of the Licorne force deployed in Ivory Coast, and has since been found in a house arrest in northern Iraq. On the other hand, the new president announced that it has arrested several "militants" involved in the abduction on April 4 in Abidjan and four foreigners, two of them French, of which there is no news. 
He said that accusations of corruption and the "seizure of power after the election results" can be settled in court in Ivory Coast, but there are "war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of blood." "We ask that Laurent Gbagbo and tried by the International Criminal Court," repeated the new head of state, who took office yesterday, six months after his election and after election conflict with his predecessor that has caused at least 3,000 dead.
Gbagbo was captured on April 11 in Abidjan by the troops of Ouattara, thanks in particular to the support of the French soldiers of the Licorne force deployed in Ivory Coast, and has since been found in a house arrest in northern Iraq. On the other hand, the new president announced that it has arrested several "militants" involved in the abduction on April 4 in Abidjan and four foreigners, two of them French, of which there is no news.
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