Simone Gbagbo

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Simone Ehivet Gbagbo (born June 20, 1949 in Moussou , Grand-Bassam ) is an Ivorian trade unionist and politician .

Life

youth

Simone Gbagbo is the daughter of Chief Police Officer Jean Ehivet and Marie Djaha, who died while giving birth. From 1973 she studied history and linguistics at the Ivorian École normal supérieure as well as the universities of Cocody-Abidjan University , the University of Paris XIII and the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar . She completed her studies with a doctorate . Between 1967 and 1971 she was involved in the Catholic University Youth JEC-F (Jeunesse estudiantine catholique). Because of her activity in the trade union movement and her Marxist ideology at the time, she was arrested repeatedly in the 1970s. Together with her future husband Laurent Gbagbo , she was one of the founders of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) in 1982 . They married in 1989. In 1996, she suffered a serious traffic accident, prompting them to evangelical Christianity converted .

From 2000 to 2010, as the wife of Laurent Gbagbo, she was the première lady of the Ivory Coast as well as a parliamentary group leader and one of the vice-presidents of the ruling party FPI. She was involved in charitable work in the fight against poverty and AIDS.

Civil war

Together with her husband, Simone Gbagbo, known by the nicknames " Iron Lady " and " Xena - The Warrior Princess ", led the country in a kind of "double leadership". After the beginning of the civil war between the Christian south and the Muslim north in 2002, she appeared as a “nationalist hardliner”. According to newspaper reports, she was also largely responsible for her husband's refusal to recognize the defeat in the 2010 presidential election against Alassane Ouattara .

In 2005, a confidential United Nations report accused Simone Gbagbo of arranging for death squads to kill her husband's rivals . In 2008, the organization " Reporters Without Borders " accused her of being responsible for the 2004 disappearance of the French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.

Government crisis

Simone Gbagbo, together with her husband and his confidants Alcide Djédjé , Désiré Asségnini Tagro and Pascal Affi N'Guessan , were affected by the sanctions adopted by the United States on January 6, 2011 . All of her possessions were frozen and companies were not allowed to do business with her. Together with the same people, she was also explicitly mentioned in Resolution 1975 of the UN Security Council of March 30, which provided for the blocking of her assets and a general travel ban. They were accused of "obstructing the peace and reconciliation process" and "public incitement to hatred and violence".

On April 11, 2011, she and her husband were arrested by Ouattara's armed forces, supported by French soldiers from the Licorne Opération and UN soldiers from the Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire . The photo of her capture with soldiers posing with her went around the world.

International Criminal Court arrest warrant

On November 22, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it had issued an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo. This had already been issued on February 29, 2012, but was classified as secret at the time. Simone Gbagbo is the first woman to be charged by the ICC. It is accused of crimes against humanity. However, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison by an Ivorian court in 2015 and was released on August 7, 2018 due to a general amnesty from Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cheikh Yérim Seck: La vraie Simone Gbagbo . In: Jeune Afrique v. December 12, 2006; s. a. Sharon T. Freeman: Conversations with powerful African women leaders. Washington DC 2002, p. 69.
  2. ↑ a b Official website of Simone Gbagbo ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.simonegbagbo.com
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Blunschi: The «iron lady» of the Ivory Coast , on 20min.ch v. April 12, 2011.
  4. ^ Simone Gbagbo, la "dame de fer" du régime in Le Parisien v. April 11, 2011.
  5. ^ Colum Lynch: Ivory Coast First Lady Leads Death Squad, Report Alleges. In The Washington Post v. January 29, 2005.
  6. ↑ At least 20 journalists missing worldwide. Press release v. August 30, 2008 on kefk.org.
  7. ↑ Merle David Kellerhals Jr .: United States Imposes Sanctions On Gbagbo. In: allAfrica.com. January 7, 2011, accessed June 22, 2011 .
  8. ↑ UN decide sanctions against Gbagbo. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 31, 2011, accessed April 5, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Official Journal of the European Union v. April 7, 2011, I 93/22.
  10. ↑ French soldiers arrest Gbagbo on spiegel.de (accessed April 11, 2011)
  11. ↑ Here the ex-first lady of Ivory Coast is being mocked. In: Image v. May 16, 2011.
  12. ^ Arrest warrant from February 29, 2012 - The Prosecutor v. Simone Gbagbo - ICC-02 / 11-01 / 12
  13. ^ Wife of the former Ivorian president charged
personal data
SURNAME Gbagbo, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gbagbo, Simone Ehivet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivory Coast