but no one was injured. Kérékou called the triumvirate "truly a monster" as it showed "unpardonable incompetence", amongst other charges which were used to justify the coup. Kouandété was pardoned, although the former council was not. Maga, Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, and Apithy spent more than nine years in prison before being freed by Kérékou in 1981. Later life and death After being released on amnesty, Apithy moved to Paris, where he lived out the rest of his life. On December 3, 1989, he died. Just days afterward, Kerekou proclaimed the end to socialism in Dahomey (renamed Benin in 1975), which he had established in November 1974. Notes References Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1st page on the French National Assembly website 2nd page on the French National Assembly website 1913 births 1989 deaths People from Porto-Novo People of French West Africa Finance ministers of Benin Vice presidents of Benin Rassemblement Démocratique Africain politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Candidates for President of Benin Leaders ousted by a coup Beninese prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Benin