In fact, according to the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, the ballet of French Freemasons in Libreville, where we saw senior insiders like Alain Bauer – Special Advisor for terrorism at the Elysee Palace and president of the Observatory delinquency – former Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (from 2000 to 2003), participating in ceremonies around the death of father Bongo ended with the election of Ali as head of both persuasions local who has a thousand members. Francois Stifani, the grand master of the French National Grand Lodge (GLNF), one of the largest Masonic hexagonal with 38 000 members, made the trip to Libreville on Saturday crowned Ali Bongo, who, though already initiated, had until then that the rank of assistant master, that is to say at least three levels, below the top of the hierarchy. He became at age 53, the grand master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon (GLB) and the Great Rite Equatorial, the two orders that frequent the Gabonese Freemasons..

Ali Bongo, this promotion is as important as his swearing. A strategy developed and applied successfully by the late Omar Bongo. He had indeed built the Masonic hall in recruitment of its key employees, and used it as a surefire way of allegiance to his power.

Initiated in his first Masonic Lodge in 1953, that is to say, fourteen years before his accession to the highest office Nov. 28, 1967, Omar Bongo, religious chameleon who converts to Catholicism in turn and Islam Lodge of Gabon (GLG), linked to the French National Grand Lodge (GLNF), near the French right. To have the trust of father Bongo in Gabon, he was part of at least one of its two orders. That’s what will almost all senior executives to Gabon.

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