In 2000, to everyone's surprise, the opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo won the elections in Cote d'Ivoire, the showcase of "Francafrique" since the days of Houphouet-Boigny, but this historic democratic victory was not "accepted" by the former colonial power. On April 11, 2011, at the cost of military intervention, Nicolas Sarkozy installed Alassane Ouattara in power and orchestrated, with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the transfer of Laurent Gbagbo to The Hague.After seven years of detention and three years of trial, during which the manipulations and errors of international justice were brought to light, the time for truth has come. Based on confidential documents, in particular between the French authorities and the ICC, the Franco-Ivorian author retraces the true story of this merciless fight for the sovereignty of Cote d'Ivoire.