{"id":75228,"date":"2025-10-28T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lepotentiel.bj\/?p=75228"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:24:01","slug":"28-octobre-2016-28-octobre-2025-neuf-ans-apres-laffaire-sebastien-ajavon-hante-toujours-la-memoire-politique-du-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lepotentiel.bj\/?p=75228","title":{"rendered":"28 octobre 2016- 28 octobre 2025: Neuf ans apr\u00e8s, l\u2019affaire S\u00e9bastien Ajavon hante toujours la m\u00e9moire politique du B\u00e9nin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Il y a neuf ans jour pour jour, le 28 octobre 2016, le B\u00e9nin d\u00e9couvrait ce qui allait devenir l\u2019affaire S\u00e9bastien Ajavon. La saisie de 18 kilogrammes de coca\u00efne pure dans un conteneur appartenant \u00e0 Cajaf-Comon, soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019homme d\u2019affaires et candidat malheureux \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle de la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e. L\u2019affaire allait rapidement d\u00e9passer le cadre judiciaire pour s\u2019enraciner au c\u0153ur du d\u00e9bat politique national.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rel\u00e2ch\u00e9 dans un premier temps faute de preuves, S\u00e9bastien Ajavon sera rattrap\u00e9 en 2018 par une condamnation \u00e0 20 ans de prison. Entre-temps, son image d\u2019entrepreneur prosp\u00e8re et de soutien du pouvoir naissant de 2016 s\u2019est transform\u00e9e en celle d\u2019un opposant en exil. Depuis la France, o\u00f9 il a obtenu le statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 politique, l\u2019homme n\u2019a cess\u00e9 de d\u00e9noncer un complot politique orchestr\u00e9 selon lui par ceux qu\u2019il avait autrefois soutenus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">L\u2019affaire Ajavon a profond\u00e9ment marqu\u00e9 la vie politique b\u00e9ninoise. En 2020, la Cour africaine des droits de l\u2019homme et des peuples (CADHP) a jug\u00e9 que les droits politiques de l\u2019homme d\u2019affaires avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 viol\u00e9s. Elle a m\u00eame demand\u00e9 la suspension des \u00e9lections municipales, d\u00e9cision que le gouvernement b\u00e9ninois a refus\u00e9 d\u2019appliquer, avant d\u2019annoncer son retrait du protocole de la cour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neuf ans apr\u00e8s, le nom de S\u00e9bastien Ajavon reste associ\u00e9 \u00e0 une fracture entre justice et politique. L\u2019affaire, jamais referm\u00e9e dans les consciences, continue de rappeler qu\u2019au B\u00e9nin, les dossiers judiciaires \u00e0 forte teneur politique laissent toujours des traces durables.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Joseph Sossou<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il y a neuf ans jour pour jour, le 28 octobre 2016, le B\u00e9nin d\u00e9couvrait ce qui allait devenir l\u2019affaire S\u00e9bastien Ajavon. La saisie de 18 kilogrammes de coca\u00efne pure dans un conteneur appartenant \u00e0 Cajaf-Comon, soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019homme d\u2019affaires et candidat malheureux \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle de la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e. L\u2019affaire allait rapidement d\u00e9passer le [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>28 octobre 2016- 28 octobre 2025: Neuf ans apr\u00e8s, l\u2019affaire S\u00e9bastien Ajavon hante toujours la m\u00e9moire politique du B\u00e9nin - Le Potentiel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lepotentiel.bj\/?p=75228\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"28 octobre 2016- 28 octobre 2025: Neuf ans apr\u00e8s, l\u2019affaire S\u00e9bastien Ajavon hante toujours la m\u00e9moire politique du B\u00e9nin - Le Potentiel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Il y a neuf ans jour pour jour, le 28 octobre 2016, le B\u00e9nin d\u00e9couvrait ce qui allait devenir l\u2019affaire S\u00e9bastien Ajavon. 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