Jean-Jacques Konadjé l COTE D’IVOIRE, THE PRICE OF POSITIVE PEACE benefit from the same advantages(12 million bonuses and corporal ranks) as their former rebel brothers-in-arms. In addition to these, there is the category of ex-com­batants who, although they have benefited from reintegration projects in the socio­economic fabric, are now challenging the DDR process. As paradoxical as it may seem, after being inserted or reintegrated into civilian life by opting for life projects, ex­combatants continue to behave like soldiers. Despite the fact that they have carried out their disarmament through the DDR process, some of them continue to have weapons and ammunition at their disposal. Thus, it appears from the investigations that many demobilised soldiers have played a very active role in the various mutinies that shook the country in 2017. In Bouaké, in the former Forces nouvelles stronghold, in a sign of protest, demo ­bilised soldiers have regularly blocked corridors at the city's entry points during the first half of 2017. That situation has resulted into widespread psychosis in the country. In Korhogo, in the extreme north of the country, the same has happened. In the main cities of the country, the“ cellule 39” was created. The“ cellule 39” is a move ­ment that claims to defend the interests of the demobilised soldiers whose regis ­tration numbers begin with the number 39. The countless and constant threats that those demobilised soldiers have raised and their clear nationwide plan have led the Ivorian government to engage in dialogue with members of the“ cellule 39”. In May 2017, demobilised soldiers' demands took a dramatic turn. In fact, during the last mutiny, soldiers from Bouaké opened fire on demobilised soldiers, who were holding a meeting at their headquarters in order to take advantage of the mutiny to claim, in their turn, the payment of their bonuses. On 23 May 2017, when they blocked the corridor south of the town of Bouaké, four demobilised soldiers died during a regular forces operation(police and gendarmerie) that tried to disperse them. The com ­muniqué issued by the Ministry of State, Ministry of the Interior and Security clearly implicates the demobilised soldiers in the death of their comrades. It must be said that some of these ex-combatants who were armed during this demonstration pulled the pin out of a grenade that ex ­ploded in their bosom. Notwithstanding talks with some members of the government, demobilised soldiers kept on protesting violently to make their voice heard. During the night of 14-15 July 2017, former combatants from the city of Abidjan attacked the police station in the 32nd district, stole the national police service vehicles and two Kalashnikovs, before occupying a road axis for long hours in the municipality of Abobo. On the basis of the above analysis, everything suggests that, in addition to financial claims, demo­bilised soldiers' movements would mask other objectives that should be taken into account in the analysis of the country's socio-political development. 12