Pemerintah melakukan penutupan keamanan ketat di sekitar istana presiden dan satu pangkalan militer, tempat Conte(72), yang pertama kali memangku jabatan dalam kudeta tak berdarah 1984, tinggal.
Authorities threw a tight security cordon around the presidential palace and a military base where 72-year-old Conte, who first came to power in a bloodless 1984 coup, was in residence.