cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/18878447
A group of soldiers on Sunday appeared on Benin’s state television claiming to have removed President Patrice Talon from office and dissolved all state institutions. Talon’s office, meanwhile, said that loyalist forces had managed to get the situation “under control”.
Isn’t “the army having everything under control” what a coup is?
From what I understood, some soldiers took over the tv stations and said they were making a coup. The other parts of the army sent them to jail.