'HORTAL FLED TO RILDANOR'KIGAMI/TIRALI, August 2812 - After the Gekokujo Party claims victory on August 4th, the Hortál family and their close associates hurriedly rushed to leave the Palace. On 4 August 2812, elections were held. Incumbent president Hortál only received 17% of the votes, while his opponent, opposition leader Itoskti Sama from the Gekokujo party, received allmost 82% of the votes. Hortál refused to accept the, in his eyes, "allegedly fraudulent" result. He refused to step down and to recognize Itoskti Sama as winner of the elections. In the evening of August 4, Hortál send a message to all the television and radio stations in which he declared the elections illegal and ordered to arrest Itoskti Sama "to save the democracy and keep the peace in the country".
Later that evening, angry demonstrators numbering about 50,000 supporters of the Gekokujo party, students and laborers stormed the Presidential Palace, burning part of the medical building and crashing through the gate with a fire truck that had been forcibly commandeered by laborers and students.
They were prevented from storming the Palace by loyal government troops securing the area. The angry demonstrators were pacified by priests who warned them not to be violent. But later that evening, things got out of hand. Tear gas grenades finally dispersed the crowd, giving the Hortál family and their close associates time to leave the Palace.
Amateur pictures of the Hortal family fleeing the countryAt about nine o'clock that night, Hortál and his family sneak out the back door of Presidential Palace to the palace's backyard, where helicopters are waiting to take the (former) President and his family to about Manishuro Air Base, about 83 kilometers west of Kigami. In the early morning of August 5th, the Navy ordered to evacuate Mr. and Mrs. Hortál, and members of the government.
Mr. and Mrs. Hortál arrived in Tirali, Rildanor, in the early morning of August 5th, 2812.THE HORTALS TOOK ENORMOUS FORTUNE WITH THEM AFTER DEPARTUREAfter maoist troops captured the Presidential Palace, shortly after Hortal's departure, they saw an entirely empty palace. Together with all their treasures, the former Presidential couple took also most of the furniture, paintings and tablewear, belonging to the Presidential Palace, with them. According to many sources, the Hortals took an estimated fortune of 250 million INS with them to Rildanor.
It was reported that, when Hortál fled, Rildanor Customs agents discovered 18 suitcases of gold bricks and diamond jewelry hidden in diaper bags and in addition, certificates for gold bullion valued in the billions of dollars were allegedly among the personal properties he, his family, his cronies and business partners surreptitiously took with them when the Rildanorian government provided them safe passage. Mrs. Hortál was found to have taken with her 15 mink coats, 508 gowns, 888 handbags and 1060 pairs of shoes.
The Hortals took all their possesions and fortune with them. Amateur pictures showing only empty jewelry boxes, wehn arriving at the empty Presidential Palace