Abidjan (Writing / AP) .- The forces loyal to the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, do not give up on Sunday and responded with artillery fire and the soldiers of the president Alassane Ouattara that plague Gbagbo in his palace presidential Abidjan. "The Hotel Golfha been attacked with mortar fire.
This came from the southern part of the hotel and the residence of President Gbagbo, located in the same neighborhood," he told France Press Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the UN mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI). After the attack, which lasted about an hour, the UN blue helmets are now advocating the premises.
"According to its mandate to protect the hotel they found Ouattara and his team, the peacekeepers have responded in the path of origin of the shots coming from the other side of the lake. We avoided voluntarily President Gbagbo's residence "said Toure. "We are lying on the ground. The shots are shaking the walls of the house.
Do not know who is shooting," one resident told Efe the neighborhood. "We were attacked by heavy weapons and light. The walls of the hotel have trembled, and staff have been evacuated to the basement," said a worker from the establishment to France Press. This past Saturday, has also attacked the home of former Ivorian President Henri Konan Bedie, located in Cocody, by an unidentified group.
Bedie, who supported Ouattara in the second round, is also on site with members of the government of President-elect and many senior officials and military commanders. Hours before the attack, Gbagbo, from the bunker where it is entrenched, called on his followers to resist yet another blow to obstruct this, "referring to the siege that have undergone Ouattara troops, aided French troops and UN.
In the statement released on Saturday and is signed by his spokesman, Gbagbo to urge Ivorians to continue fighting "for the release of Ivory Coast and Africa, while expressing regret for" the suffering imposed by Ouattara and terrorists. " He expressed "the firm conviction that a glorious Ivory Coast, proud and prosperous reborn from the rubble." As for his rival, the outgoing president new statement emphasizes once again that Ouattara was not the winner of the elections nor is the country's legitimate president, "There has been elected by the Ivorian people, or invested by the Council Constitution.
Neither has been sworn. Therefore all decisions are null and void. " Gbagbo is gaining ground in Abidjan The shooting Ouattara headquarters ended the relative calm experienced during the day in Abidjan. This Saturday the forces loyal to Gbagbo recovered ground in the city, where forces are deployed UNOCI and French Licorne operation "to secure order in a short revival of the port activities and the resumption of activity in the city's international airport, which Ouattara called for three days in an appearance on state television.
After spending several days at bay, Gbagbo's troops have done it again with the control of neighborhoods in Le Plateau and Cocody , strategic areas of the city. Let the troops win Gbagbo is not surprising at all positions after the declarations of the United Nations yesterday, when the organization's general secretary for peacekeeping, Alain LeRoy, accused the president of Ivory Coast to lay a trap for the international negotiators to try to gain ground.
This advance Gbagbo has undermined the spirit of a portion of the population abiyanesa, who saw in the speech of Ouattara, and control of its troops from these two areas key city, an indication of return to normal. 
This came from the southern part of the hotel and the residence of President Gbagbo, located in the same neighborhood," he told France Press Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the UN mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI). After the attack, which lasted about an hour, the UN blue helmets are now advocating the premises.
"According to its mandate to protect the hotel they found Ouattara and his team, the peacekeepers have responded in the path of origin of the shots coming from the other side of the lake. We avoided voluntarily President Gbagbo's residence "said Toure. "We are lying on the ground. The shots are shaking the walls of the house.
Do not know who is shooting," one resident told Efe the neighborhood. "We were attacked by heavy weapons and light. The walls of the hotel have trembled, and staff have been evacuated to the basement," said a worker from the establishment to France Press. This past Saturday, has also attacked the home of former Ivorian President Henri Konan Bedie, located in Cocody, by an unidentified group.
Bedie, who supported Ouattara in the second round, is also on site with members of the government of President-elect and many senior officials and military commanders. Hours before the attack, Gbagbo, from the bunker where it is entrenched, called on his followers to resist yet another blow to obstruct this, "referring to the siege that have undergone Ouattara troops, aided French troops and UN.
In the statement released on Saturday and is signed by his spokesman, Gbagbo to urge Ivorians to continue fighting "for the release of Ivory Coast and Africa, while expressing regret for" the suffering imposed by Ouattara and terrorists. " He expressed "the firm conviction that a glorious Ivory Coast, proud and prosperous reborn from the rubble." As for his rival, the outgoing president new statement emphasizes once again that Ouattara was not the winner of the elections nor is the country's legitimate president, "There has been elected by the Ivorian people, or invested by the Council Constitution.
Neither has been sworn. Therefore all decisions are null and void. " Gbagbo is gaining ground in Abidjan The shooting Ouattara headquarters ended the relative calm experienced during the day in Abidjan. This Saturday the forces loyal to Gbagbo recovered ground in the city, where forces are deployed UNOCI and French Licorne operation "to secure order in a short revival of the port activities and the resumption of activity in the city's international airport, which Ouattara called for three days in an appearance on state television.
After spending several days at bay, Gbagbo's troops have done it again with the control of neighborhoods in Le Plateau and Cocody , strategic areas of the city. Let the troops win Gbagbo is not surprising at all positions after the declarations of the United Nations yesterday, when the organization's general secretary for peacekeeping, Alain LeRoy, accused the president of Ivory Coast to lay a trap for the international negotiators to try to gain ground.
This advance Gbagbo has undermined the spirit of a portion of the population abiyanesa, who saw in the speech of Ouattara, and control of its troops from these two areas key city, an indication of return to normal.
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