Strictly speaking, Djibrill Bassolé, 64 is not in exile, even if he cannot yet return to his home country, Burkina Faso, where between 2000 and 2007 he served as minister first for security and then, until 2008, of foreign affairs under Blaise Compaoré. In 2019 he was jailed for ten years in relation to his alleged involvement in a 2015 putsch attempt, only to be released in January 2020 for medical treatment in Paris. His conviction still stands, however, and he has since been living in the French