Gendarmerie (Ivory Coast)

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The Ivory Coast gendarmerie is the paramilitary, Ivorian gendarmerie . She was part of the Armed Forces (FDS) until the beginning of 2011 . Her status has not been clarified since Laurent Gbagbo's arrest in the wake of the government crisis in 2010/2011 .

history

In October 2000, during the presidential elections, fierce street battles took place across Abidjan . Then the so-called “ Charnier de Youpogon ” (French for “ mass grave of Yopougon ”) was found in Yopougon . Inside were the bodies of more than 50 people, mostly from the north. The perpetrators were suspected to be in the ranks of the gendarmerie.

Gendarmerie units actively fought in the civil war of 2002–2007 on the southern side. During the civil war there were also massacres of gendarmerie members. In Bouaké, for example, 95 gendarmerie officers and their entire families were killed.

The gendarmerie also took part in the fighting in the wake of the government crisis in Ivory Coast in 2010/2011 . On the night of December 3rd to 4th, 2010, there were violent exchanges of fire between the gendarmerie and unknown attackers, presumably from the Commandos Invisible, in Port-Bouët . On February 24, 2011, Chief of Gendarmerie Edouard Kassaraté announced that his troops would cleanse Abobo , a district of Abidjan, of rebels.

Before March 28, talks took place between the gendarmerie leadership and the Ivorian Army (FANCI) on the one hand and the Alassane Ouattara camp on the other. The head of the Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI), Choi Young-Jin , claimed on April 1 that the 50,000 gendarmes and police officers in Abidjan had sided with Ouattara.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Scheen: Countless old accounts. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 23, 2010, accessed May 12, 2011 .
  2. ^ Riots in the Ivory Coast. In: The time . December 4, 2010, accessed May 6, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Dominic Johnson : "There are corpses everywhere". In: the daily newspaper . February 25, 2011, accessed March 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b Thomas Scheen: Brutal fight for Abidjan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 1, 2011, accessed April 11, 2011 .