Career
Attipoé was a campaign director for RPT candidate Faure Gnassingbé in the presidential election held on 24 April 2005. When he went to vote on election day, he was beaten up, along with two bodyguards. He said that supporters of the opposition were responsible for this assault.
He died in a Paramount Airlines helicopter crash on 3 June 2007 at the Lungi International Airport near Freetown, Sierra Leone along with 21 other people.
Attipoé was part of a Togolese delegation attending an African Nations Cup football qualifying match played in Freetown between Sierra Leone and Togo. After the match, they were flown to the airport, where the helicopter caught on fire and crashed as it attempted to land.
Attipoé was buried in Lomé on 23 June.