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Haiti Police Indict 26 Colombians, Two Americans In President Moise Killing

    Advertisement At least 28 people carried out the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that 26 of them were … Continue reading Haiti Police Indict 26 Colombians, Two Americans In President Moise Killing


This video grab made on July 9, 2021 from a handout footage obtained from Haiti’s Prime Minister offices shows arrested men suspected of being part of the 28-member hit squad believed to be made up of Americans and Colombians who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise on July 8, 2021. Haitian police said that eight were still at large as the country lurched into political chaos. Handout / Primature de la République d’Haïti / ESN / AFP

 

This video grab made on July 9, 2021, from a handout footage obtained from Haiti’s Prime Minister offices, shows arrested men suspected of being part of the 28-member hit squad believed to be made up of Americans and Colombians who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise on July 8, 2021. 
Handout / Primature de la République d’Haïti / ESN / AFP

 

At least 28 people carried out the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that 26 of them were Colombian and two were Americans of Haitian origin.

“We have arrested 15 Colombians and the two Americans of Haitian origin. Three Colombians have been killed while eight others are on the loose,” national police director-general Leon Charles said at a news conference.

On Wednesday police said four of the suspects had been killed. Charles did not explain the discrepancy.

He also said the “weapons and materials used by the assailants have been recovered.”

Charles spoke a day after Moise and his wife Martine were attacked by gunmen at their private residence in the capital Port-au-Prince.

Moise was shot dead in the early morning attack, and his wife was wounded. She has been taken to Miami by air ambulance and authorities have said her condition is stable.

The poorest country in the Americas now has no president or working parliament and two men claiming to be in charge as prime minister.

Charles vowed the hunt for the other alleged assassins would continue.

“We will strengthen our investigation and search techniques to intercept the other eight mercenaries,” he said.

-AFP