State security seized documents that outlined plans for the eventual overthrow and replacement of the democratically elected leader with a transitional military council.

[1] In a public interview to national television, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko accused pro-Gbagbo officers and former members of his administration of complicity in the plot to install a transitional military council, disclosing "We had very specific information that a group of officers in exile in Accra were preparing a military operation in Ivory Coast aimed at destabilizing the country.

"[2] He then proceeded to play a recorded video where a group of uniformed men, led by a spokesman, proclaimed the dissolution of the Ivory Coast's institutions and the establishment of a council for national sovereignty.

[1] The coup plot involved a combination of Liberian mercenaries and Ivorian militias, with ties to Gbagbo's loyalists.

[4] The coup attempt was linked to recent violence, including the killing of seven UN peacekeepers, and involved elements from Gbagbo's presidential guard.