President Alpha Conde of Guinea is currently in detention in what is believed to be a coup by soldiers.
Guinea’s special forces claimed Sunday to have captured President Alpha Conde and “dissolved” the country’s institutions.
The statement has been widely circulated on social networks but has not been broadcast on national television.
The coup plotters, with whom AFP’s correspondent confirmed the source of these images, broadcast a video of President Conde in their hands.
They ask him if he has been mistreated, and Alpha Conde, in jeans and a shirt on a sofa, refuses to answer them.
For its part, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement that “the insurgents (had) spread fear” in Conakry before taking the direction of the presidential palace, but that “the presidential guard, supported by the defense and security forces, loyalists and republicans, have contained the threat and pushed back the group of attackers.