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Worst post-poll I. Coast violence by Gbagbo camp: prosecutor

By AFP
Ivory Coast Resident walk past shops looted and destroyed in the Abobo district of Abidjan in 2011.  By Issouf Sanogo (AFP/File)
SUN, 03 JUN 2012
Resident walk past shops looted and destroyed in the Abobo district of Abidjan in 2011. By Issouf Sanogo (AFP/File)

ABIDJAN (AFP) - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Saturday that the worst of the post-poll violence in Ivory Coast was committed by forces loyal to ex-president Laurent Gbagbo.

"The most hideous crimes committed after the election were committed, to the prosecutor's point of view, by Mr Gbagbo's troops," Luis Moreno-Ocampo told a news conference in Abidjan.

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