Officials on both sides of the fight in Ivory Coast say strongman Laurent Gbagbo is perforated in its private bunker, bombarded by forces of the opposition.
A diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case said forces Ivorian internationally recognized choir leader Alassane Ouattara attacked the new compound where Laurent Gbagbo drag down with his family.
Reuters News reported shortly after 5: 30 and that the soldiers had stormed Gbagbo's residence.
"Yes, they are entering the home of Gbagbo, they he did not yet, but they are in the process, they are in the building," Affousy Bamba, a spokesman for the forces Ouattara, told Reuters.
Gbagbo representative Toussaint Alain, speaking to the Associated Press in a telephone interview from Paris, said Gbagbo's residence was bombed by the French army. He said firing the French forces of two Puma helicopters and on the roof of the residence of the French Ambassador in the vicinity.
"France will be held responsible for the death of President Gbagbo, his wife and family members and all those who are inside the residence, which was bombarded by the French army," he said, adding "there is a real danger" that Gbagbo and others could be killed in the operation.
French military spokesman Thierry Burkhard denied that drawing of the French forces at Gbagbo's residence, saying no French or operation of the United Nations was in progress. France has helicopters patrolling Abidjan, help guide land forces and rescue the people trapped in dangerous areas, he said.
Although Gbagbo is squeezed, and his army is quickly dissolved him out of bunker is not easy. Forces internationally recognized choir leader Alassane Ouattara received strict instructions to take him away safely, said several members of the cabinet of the President.
After the Tuesday evening newscast, Ouattara private television channel showed the fall film, which recounts the last days of Adolf Hitler in a bunker in Germany.
The slope of luxurious composed of Gbagbo, dozens of his soldiers was seen going into a church where they were stripped of their uniforms and abandoned their weapons. Earlier, three top generals of Gbagbo stated that they had ordered their men to stop fighting, the Organization of the United Nations said in a statement.
Developments spell game on a man who refused to accept defeat in elections last year and took his country to the brink of civil war in his attempt to preserve power. Its security forces are accused of the use of guns, mortars and machine guns to mow opponents in the four months since Ouattara was declared winner of the contested vote.
President Laurent Gbagbo of C?te d'Ivoire speaks at a press conference at the headquarters of his party in Abidjan on November 9, 2010. ReutersBut analysts say Ouattara is fully aware that, while he won last year's elections with 54% of the vote, Gbagbo has received 46 percent - which represents almost half of the electorate. A diplomat who speaks frequently Ouattara said that the leader is aware of the danger involved at this stage, because if Gbagbo is killed he can mobilize his supporters.
Choi Young-jin, the top Envoy of the United Nations in C?te d'Ivoire, said by telephone that the assignment of Gbagbo was "imminent."
"He accepted of [the] principle to accept the results of the election, so it doesn't have many cards in its hands," Choi told Associated Press Television News. "The key element, that they negotiate is Mr. Gbagbo goes where.
Then, just as it seemed about to resign, Gbagbo, in her first interview in months, insisted lost that he did not intend to relinquish power.
"I won the election and I do not negotiate my departure", he told French television LCI by telephone of his bunker. "I find it absolutely amazing that everyone plays this... game of poker."
Observers veteran of the nation on the western edge of Africa say that the turn of events could have been taken from a biography of Gbagbo.
In Abidjan, he long was called Le Boulanger, French Baker, because it rolls of persons in the flour, a reference to a popular expression, which means to manipulate and deceive others. The elections that took place finally last year was supposed to take place five years earlier.
"To put an end to this violence and to prevent more bloodshed, former President the Gbagbo must withdraw immediately and directly to those who are fighting in his name to drop their weapons."-US President Barack Obama
Gbagbo has been assigned for many extensions that people in his country have lost count of how many times the survey was deferred.
"I believe that it plays for the moment," said a senior diplomat who has closely followed events and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the press. "His goal is always to buy himself has just one more day.".
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe of France said Gbagbo had to abdicate in writing and must formally recognize Ouattara, internationally backed-up winner of the November election.
After amassing on the outskirts of the city Monday, forces loyal to Ouattara seized the presidential residence where Gbagbo was hidden in the night. They moved the Organization of the Nations United agreed to proceed with a resolution of the Security Council giving their peacekeepers the right to leave heavy artillery Gbagbo.
Mi - 24 helicopters, assisted by the French troops bombed the outside perimeter of the compound. Those who live nearby, said the earth shook with each explosion.
The US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the role of the United Nations was needed to end the conflict. The forces of the Ouattara had taken more than three-quarters of the campaign between Monday and Wednesday of last week, but then faltered when they reached Abidjan, where Gbagbo had created a protective RADIUS, inhabited by his faithful soldiers.
"To put an end to this violence and prevent more bloodshed, former President Gbagbo must withdraw immediately and to those who are fighting in his name to lay down their arms directly,"Obama said in a statement.""
Ivory Coast gained its independence from the France in 1960, and some 20,000 French citizens still lived there when a brief civil war broke out in 2002.
French troops were then tasked by the United Nations with monitoring of a cease-fire and the protection of foreign nationals in C?te d'Ivoire, which was once an economic star and is still one of the only countries in the region with the four-lane highwaysskyscrapers, the escalators and the wine bars.
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