Offenbar wurden Kalaschnikow-Gewehre und Granaten bei Demonstranten gefunden, die gegen den umstrittenen Wahlsieg von Ali Bongo auf die Straße gehen.
01.09.16, 18:15
In Gabun versuchen die Behörden die Lage nach dem umstrittenen Sieg von Amtsinhaber Ali Bongo bei den Präsidentenwahlen mit einer Festnahmewelle unter zu Kontrolle zu bringen. Laut Innenminister Pacome Moubelet Boubeya sind 800 bis 1.100 Menschen angesichts der gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen von Anhängern des knapp geschlagenen Oppositionskandidaten Jean Ping festgenommen worden.
TOPSHOT - The flash of an explosion is pictured amid flames and smoke billowing from the National Assembly building in Libreville after it was set ablaze on August 31, 2016 by demonstrators protesting after Gabon's president Ali Bongo was declared winner of last weekend's contested election.
Gabon's national assembly was set ablaze on August 31, 2016 evening by angry protestors who took to the streets after an announcement that President Ali Bongo had been re-elected, witnesses said."The whole building is catching fire," a man at the scene who gave name as Yannick told AFP. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
Granaten und Kalschnikow
Die Demonstranten hätten Granaten eingesetzt, und bei den Festnahmen seien Kalaschnikow-Sturmgewehre sichergestellt worden, sagte der Minister. Bongo war am Mittwoch zum Sieger der Präsidentenwahl erklärt worden, doch erhob das Lager seines Kontrahenten umgehend Manipulationsvorwürfe. Auffallend war, dass in Bongos Hochburgen eine exorbitant hohe Beteiligung registriert wurde. "Es wird schwierig werden, die Leute davon zu überzeugen, diese Ergebnisse zu akzeptieren", sagte ein Mitglied der Wahlkommission. Bongo lag nur um 5.594 Stimmen vor Ping.
TOPSHOT - Supporters of Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping face security forces (unseen) blocking the demonstration trying to reach the electoral commission in Libreville on August 31, 2016, as part of a protest sparked after Gabon's president Ali Bongo was declared winner of last weekend's contested election.
Protesters shouting "Ali must go!" tried to storm the offices of the election commission shortly after authorities announced his re-election by a narrow majority. Bongo won by a narrow 5,594 votes of a total 627,805 registered voters. Turnout was 59.46 percent nationwide but soared to 99.93 percent in one of the country's nine provinces -- the Haut-Ogooue, heartland of Bongo's Teke ethnic group -- in a result hotly contested by the opposition. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
Bei Ausschreitungen in mehreren Vierteln der Hauptstadt Libreville kamen bisher drei Menschen ums Leben. Präsident Bongo zeigte sich unbeeindruckt von den Protesten und betonte, dass "das Volk gesprochen hat". Die Proteste würden von einer kleinen Gruppe getragen, die die Macht für sich reklamiere. Es sei nicht mit der Demokratie vereinbar, wenn das Parlament und das Fernsehgebäude angegriffen würden, erklärte Bongo mit Blick auf die Ausschreitungen.
Opposition fordert internationale Unterstützung
Ping forderte hingegen internationale Unterstützung, um die Bürger des Landes gegen die Behörden des "Schurkenstaates" zu schützen. Der französische Präsident Francois Hollande zeigte sich "zutiefst beunruhigt" wegen der Vorgänge in der ehemaligen Kolonie und rief alle Beteiligten zum Gewaltverzicht auf.
Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba delivers a speech during a press conference on September 1, 2016.
Around 1,000 people have been arrested in Gabon in violence that followed the announced re-election of President Ali Bongo, the interior minister said on September 1, 2016. "In Libreville there were between 600 and 800 arrests, and between 200 and 300 in the rest of the country," Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya told a news conference. Earlier, Bongo condemned the violence which saw the national assembly set ablaze, saying "Democracy doesn't sit well with an attack on parliament."
/ AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
A man stands in front of a burnt building in Libreville on September 1, 2016.
The results of the presidential election, announced earlier on August 31, 2016 handed Ali Bongo a second term and extended his family's nearly five-decade-long rule. The opposition described the election as fraudulent and called for results from each of Gabon's polling stations to be made public to ensure the credibility of the overall outcome -- a demand echoed by the United States and European Union. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
An employee walks past debris as he attempts to salvage items from a looted shop in Libreville on September 1, 2016.
The results of the presidential election, announced earlier on August 31, 2016 handed Ali Bongo a second term and extended his family's nearly five-decade-long rule. The opposition described the election as fraudulent and called for results from each of Gabon's polling stations to be made public to ensure the credibility of the overall outcome -- a demand echoed by the United States and European Union. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
Supporters of the Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping are loaded onto a police truck outside the party head quarters in Libreville on September 1, 2016.
The results of the presidential election, announced earlier August 31, handed Ali Bongo a second term and extended his family's nearly five-decade-long rule. The opposition described the election as fraudulent and called for results from each of Gabon's polling stations to be made public to ensure the credibility of the overall outcome -- a demand echoed by the United States and European Union. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
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