28 June 2021 By AFP 1 min 55Approximate reading time Laurent Gbagbo, the former Ivory Coast president cleared by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, on Monday slammed The Hague-based court as biased and “not serious”. Gbagbo’s first comments on the trial and his acquittal since his return to Ivory Coast after a 10-year absence, was met with rousing cheers from supporters in his home village of Mama in southwest Ivory Coast. “The ICC, it’s not serious, it had to eliminate an inconvenient man, an inconvenient competitor, so they put me there”, he told journalists and local chiefs. “But I have no regrets, because if I had come back with the title of criminal, it’s you all here who were going to be ashamed,” he said.
Ivory Coast ex-leader Gbagbo deems ICC biased and not serious
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