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Bokassa felt that he needed to take over the CAR government to solve all the country's problems — most importantly, to rid the country from the influence of communism.
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Bokassa and felt
Bokassa moved to Camp de Roux, where he felt he could safely run the government without having to worry about Banza's thirst for power.
Bokassa and needed
Dacko's personal advisers alerted him that Bokassa " showed signs of mental instability " and needed to be arrested before he sought to bring down the government, but Dacko did not heed these warnings.
Bokassa called Izamo at his headquarters and asked him to come to Camp de Roux to sign some documents that needed his immediate attention.
Bokassa and take
Despite the number of recent military coups in Africa, Dacko publicly dismissed the likelihood that Bokassa would try to take control of the country.
Around midnight, Bokassa, Banza and their supporters left Camp de Roux to take over the capital.
The men had to break Banza's arms before they could overpower and throw him into the trunk of a Mercedes and take him directly to Bokassa.
Bokassa and over
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
Later, Bokassa's officers announced on Radio-Bangui that the Dacko government had been toppled and Bokassa had taken over control.
Bokassa and Banza had a major argument over the country's budget, as Banza adamantly opposed the president's extravagant spending.
Bokassa hired two French lawyers, François Gilbault and Francis Szpiner, which faced a panel composed of six jurors and three judges, presided over by High Court Judge Edouard Franck, which was modelled after the legal system in France itself.
Bokassa spent the equivalent of over 20 million United States dollars, a quarter of the country ’ s government annual income, on his coronation ceremony.
Bokassa and CAR
On 1 January 1962, Bokassa left the French Army and joined the military forces of the CAR with the rank of battalion commandant.
As a cousin of the CAR President David Dacko and nephew of Dacko's predecessor Barthélémy Boganda, Bokassa was given the task of creating the new country's military.
Jean-Arthur Bandio, the minister of interior, suggested Dacko name Bokassa to the Cabinet, which he hoped would both break the colonel's close connections with the CAR army and satisfy the colonel's desire for recognition.
After attending the celebrations and a 23 July ceremony to mark the closing of a military officer training school he had attended decades earlier, Bokassa decided to return to the CAR.
After Bokassa threatened to withdraw from the franc monetary zone, President Charles de Gaulle decided to make an official visit to the CAR on 17 November 1966.
The prosecutor was Gabriel-Faustin M ' Boudou, the Chief Prosecutor of the CAR, who called various witnesses to testify against Bokassa, which included remembering victims ranging from political enemies to a newborn son of a palace guard commander who had been executed for attempting to kill Bokassa in 1978 when he was the self-proclaimed emperor.
The government prosecutors hired Bernard Jouanneau, a French lawyer to investigate as well as recover some of the millions of CAR francs that Bokassa had diverted from the national treasury and from both social and charity funds for his own personal use in the embezzlement charges.
Bokassa remained in the CAR for the rest of his life.
In the lead-up to this official rehabilitation, Bokassa has been praised by CAR politicians for his patriotism and for the periods of stability that he brought the country.
Bokassa and government
However, the growing unpopularity of that government led Giscard to begin distancing himself from Bokassa.
Dacko planned to replace Bokassa with Izamo as his personal military adviser, and wanted to promote army officers loyal to the government, while demoting Bokassa and his close associates.
In his address to the nation, Bokassa claimed that the government would hold elections in the future, a new assembly would be formed, and a new constitution would be written.
Despite the positive changes in the country, Bokassa had difficulty obtaining international recognition for his new government.
Bokassa also believed that the coup was necessary in order to prevent further corruption in the government.
At first, the French government was reluctant to support the Bokassa regime, so Banza went to Paris to meet with French officials to convince them that the coup was necessary to save the country from turmoil.
In September 1976, Bokassa dissolved the government and replaced it with the Conseil de la Révolution Centrafricaine ( Central African Revolutionary Council ).
Now that Bokassa was unexpectedly in the hands of the Central African Republic government, they were required by law to try him in person, granting him the benefit of defence counsel.
In September 1976, Bokassa dissolved the government and replaced it with the Conseil de la Révolution Centrafricaine (“ Central African Revolutionary Council ”).
Bokassa ’ s overthrow by the French government was called “ France ’ s last colonial expedition ” ( la dernière expédition coloniale française ) by veteran French diplomat Jacques Foccart.
On 2 January 1975, the dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa formed a new government and introduced the post of prime minister.
* Supporting the coup d ' état against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic in 1979 ( Operation Barracuda ) and installing a pro-French government.
* In Operation Barracuda, the DGSE staged a coup d ' état against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa in the Central African Republic in September 1979, and installed a pro-French government.
Bokassa and all
Bokassa abolished the constitution of 1959, dissolved the National Assembly, and issued a decree that placed all legislative and executive powers in the hands of the president.
In a move that he thought would boost his popularity in the country, Bokassa ordered prison director Otto Sacher to release all prisoners in the jail.
President Bokassa allowed MESAN to continue functioning, but barred all other political organizations from the country.
In early December 1979, the French council officially stopped all support to Bokassa.
By January 1979, French support for Bokassa had all but eroded after food riots in Bangui led to a massacre of civilians.
But the French courts ordered that all 8, 000 copies of the book be confiscated and destroyed after his publisher claimed that Bokassa said that he shared women with President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, who has been a frequent guest in the Central African Republic.
Throughout the entire trial, Bokassa denied all the charges against him.
Bokassa once stood up and raged at chief prosecutor M ' Boudou: " The aggravating thing about all this is that it's all about Bokassa, Bokassa, Bokassa!
On 12 June 1987, Bokassa was found guilty of all but the cannibalism charges.
With the return of democracy to the Central African Republic in 1993, Kolingba declared a general amnesty for all prisoners as one of his final acts as President, and Bokassa was released on 1 August 1993.
In 2010, President François Bozizé issued a decree rehabilitating Bokassa and calling him " a son of the nation recognised by all as a great builder ".
By January 1979, French support for Bokassa had all but eroded after riots in Bangui led to a massacre of civilians.
Patassé was the " cousin " of President Bokassa's principal wife, Catherine Denguiade, and gained the confidence of the new president, serving in almost all the governments formed by Bokassa.
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