On this day, 39 years ago, October 23, 1986 (September 20, 1986 in the lunar calendar), former Central African Emperor Bokassa was arrested. Former Central African Emperor Bokassa secretly left France and sneaked back to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, on October 23, 1986. He was immediately arrested and imprisoned. According to reports, on the evening of the 22nd, Bokassa, who was in exile in France, drove across the border to Brussels with his wife and five children (he had 55 children in total). At midnight, I took a flight to Rome, and then transferred to Bangui, the capital of Central Africa, in the early morning of the 23rd. Someone at the airport expressed confusion about his move, saying that "he may not know that he had been sentenced to death." Bokassa declared himself "President for Life" and "Marshal" after overthrowing President Dakota in 1986, and declared himself emperor in 1977. He was overthrown in 1979 and sentenced to death in absentia in 1980. The charges include embezzling national wealth, indiscriminate killing, hiding corpses, killing children and cannibalism. After Bokassa was deposed, he fled to the Ivory Coast (now Cote d'Ivoire) and settled in France, where he lived in one of his villas in western Paris.