Tous les membres du secrétariat général, tous les trésoriers, présidents, secrétaires de section, tous les alliés, amis… je voudrais vous dire merci d’être venus. En réalité on s’était entendu pour que ce soit Lida qui parle avec vous. Je n’ai pas de mots quand je vous vois. Normalement ce jour je ne peux et ne dois pas parler. Tout ce que je dois dire, tout ce qui est dans mon ventre là si ça doit sortir, il faille que j’en parle d’abord à mon président, le camarade Aboudramane Sangaré.
Sincèrement j’aimerais que vous vous joignez à moi pour dire merci à ce grand monsieur. C’est un digne et un dur. S’il n’était pas là, le parti serait mort à l’heure actuelle. Merci à lui. Chers camarades nous sommes sortis et nous sommes là. Lida l’a dit, nous sommes venus, mais pas pour dormir.
« MILITANTS, MILITANTES, LEVEZ-VOUS. ON EST PARTIS. ON EST PARTIS ET ON NE S’ARRÊTERA PAS » (SIMONE GBAGBO)
Nous sommes venus pour reprendre le combat. Nous sommes venus pour engager la marche vers le pouvoir. Nous sommes venus, levez-vous, préparez-vous et mettez-vous à marcher car nous allons vers le pouvoir.
On ne s’arrêtera pas. La refondation a commencé aujourd’hui. Toutes les choses sont nouvelles. Militants, militantes, levez-vous. On est partis. On est partis et on ne s’arrêtera pas ».
Propos recueillis par Prince Beganssou
Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo (C), who had been serving a 20-year jail term, gestures as she arrives at her home after she was released, two days after being amnestied on August 8, 2018 in Abidjan. – Gbagbo, 69, has spent seven years behind bars for her role in political violence that claimed several thousand lives in 2010-11. She had been implicated in the 2011 shelling of a market in an Abidjan district that supported Ouattara and for belonging to a « crisis cell » that allegedly coordinated attacks by the armed forces and militias in support of her husband. She was first detained without trial after her arrest in 2011 and later convicted and sentenced in 2015 on a charge of endangering state security. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo (C), who had been serving a 20-year jail term, gestures as she arrives at her home after she was released, two days after being amnestied on August 8, 2018 in Abidjan. – Gbagbo, 69, has spent seven years behind bars for her role in political violence that claimed several thousand lives in 2010-11. She had been implicated in the 2011 shelling of a market in an Abidjan district that supported Ouattara and for belonging to a « crisis cell » that allegedly coordinated attacks by the armed forces and militias in support of her husband. She was first detained without trial after her arrest in 2011 and later convicted and sentenced in 2015 on a charge of endangering state security. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo (C), who had been serving a 20-year jail term, arrives at her home after she was released, two days after being amnestied on August 8, 2018 in Abidjan. – Gbagbo, 69, has spent seven years behind bars for her role in political violence that claimed several thousand lives in 2010-11. She had been implicated in the 2011 shelling of a market in an Abidjan district that supported Ouattara and for belonging to a « crisis cell » that allegedly coordinated attacks by the armed forces and militias in support of her husband. She was first detained without trial after her arrest in 2011 and later convicted and sentenced in 2015 on a charge of endangering state security. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo (C), who had been serving a 20-year jail term, gestures as she arrives at her home after she was released, two days after being amnestied on August 8, 2018 in Abidjan. – Gbagbo, 69, has spent seven years behind bars for her role in political violence that claimed several thousand lives in 2010-11. She had been implicated in the 2011 shelling of a market in an Abidjan district that supported Ouattara and for belonging to a « crisis cell » that allegedly coordinated attacks by the armed forces and militias in support of her husband. She was first detained without trial after her arrest in 2011 and later convicted and sentenced in 2015 on a charge of endangering state security. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT – Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo (C), who had been serving a 20-year jail term, gestures as she arrives at her home after she was released, two days after being amnestied on August 8, 2018 in Abidjan. – Gbagbo, 69, has spent seven years behind bars for her role in political violence that claimed several thousand lives in 2010-11. She had been implicated in the 2011 shelling of a market in an Abidjan district that supported Ouattara and for belonging to a « crisis cell » that allegedly coordinated attacks by the armed forces and militias in support of her husband. She was first detained without trial after her arrest in 2011 and later convicted and sentenced in 2015 on a charge of endangering state security. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo (C), who had been serving a 20-year jail term, arrives at her home after she was released, two days after being amnestied on August 8, 2018 in Abidjan. – Gbagbo, 69, has spent seven years behind bars for her role in political violence that claimed several thousand lives in 2010-11. She had been implicated in the 2011 shelling of a market in an Abidjan district that supported Ouattara and for belonging to a « crisis cell » that allegedly coordinated attacks by the armed forces and militias in support of her husband. She was first detained without trial after her arrest in 2011 and later convicted and sentenced in 2015 on a charge of endangering state security. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)