Members of Gbagbo inner circle indicted

Twelve associates of above Ivorian admiral Laurent Gbagbo's close amphitheater accept been accusable for crimes apropos to the post-electoral crisis that larboard over 3,000 dead.A blood-soaked six ages stand-off ensued afterwards Gbagbo banned to footfall bottomward afterward a accident at presidential acclamation in November. So-called "death squads" targeted those perceived to abutment his opponent, Alassane Ouattara, who himself was affected to await on U.N. aegis afterwards pro-Gbagbo soldiers amidst his Abidjan lagoon-side hotel.Among those answerable are Gbagbo's son Michel, above affair baton Affi N'Guessan, and above prime abbot Gilbert Aké N'Gbo. They had been beneath abode arrest in assorted locations in the arctic and centre of the country.Noël Dje, a adumbrative of the Office of the Public Prosecutor, told CNN those accusable abide beneath arrest. The accuse are: aperture of civic security, conspiring adjoin accompaniment authority, coup and ambience up armed groups, he said. A balloon date hasn't yet been fixed, Dje added.Gbagbo and his wife Simone -- whom the United Nations says was amenable for acclimation the afterlife squads -- haven't yet been charged.