Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is expected to return home on June 17, his party said on Monday.
Mr Assoa Adou, the leader of a pro-Gbagbo party, announced the date of the former president’s homecoming in front of a crowd that had come to celebrate Gbagbo’s birthday in Abidjan.
However, the Government said no consultation was made prior to the announcement.
President Alassane Ouattara said Gbagbo was free to return from the Hague to reconcile the country.
On March 31, the ICC acquitted Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity.
He was sentenced to 20- m in absentia in November 2019 by an Ivorian court for misappropriating funds from the regional central bank.
The 76 years old Gbagbo served as president from 2000 until his arrest in 2011, after his refusal to concede electoral defeat to Ouattara. The post-electoral violence claimed the lives of at least 3,000 people.
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