On July 16, 2019, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court released its written decision in the case of The Prosecutor v. Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goud, in which it listed the full reasons for the oral decision it made on January 15, 2019, acquitting Gbagbo and Blé Goudé from all charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Côte d'Ivoire in 2010 and 2011. As noted in the press release, the majority determined that the Prosecutor had presented an “unbalanced narrative” that ignored essential information, making it impossible to fully understand what happened in the case and that “the tendered evidence, most of which was circumstantial, was too weak to be capable of supporting the inferences the Prosecutor asked the Chamber to draw.” The Court also stated “that the available evidence did not support the allegation that the crimes were the result of a policy to target perceived political opponents. Furthermore, the Majority was not satisfied that the evidence relied upon by the Prosecutor was sufficient to establish a pattern of crimes from which such policy could be inferred.” The Court released the majority opinion of Judge Tarfusser and Judge Henderson, which provided a detailed analysis of the evidence (Annex B); Judge Tarfusser’s separate concurring opinion (Annex A); and Judge Herrera Carbuccia’s dissented (Annex C).