“They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire 31 In addition, after Laurent Gbagbo's arrest, presumed supporters of the former President were victims of violent reprisals, despite the fact that President Ouattara launched a call on television on 11 April 2011 “appeal[ing] to all [his] compatriots who might feel the need for vengeance to abstain from all acts of reprisal and violence” On 12 April, armed men, some of them in uniforms, raided districts inhabited by real or presumed supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, notably in Yopougon and Koumassi. A witness told Amnesty International how, on the same day, a police officer, apparently from the same ethnic group as Laurent Gbagbo, had been apprehended just before 10am at his home in Yopougon by men in uniform and shot him dead at point-blank range. In Abidjan, several journalists close to the former president were tracked down by armed men and the offices of several daily newspapers, including Notre Voie, organ of the FPI, Laurent Gbagbo's party, were attacked and vandalized. One of these journalists told Amnesty International how armed men came to his home three nights in a row between 12 and 15 April and how he had to hide and finally flee with his family. Lawyers, real or presumed supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, have also been targeted. Some of them have had their homes looted, their offices destroyed and have had to flee, sometimes abroad. Index: AFR 31/002/2011 Amnesty International May 2011