Haiti: Jovenel Moïse assassinated, "sign of uncontrollable violence"
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Jovenel Moïse.
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By: Mikaël Ponge
21 mins
[Special Edition] Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated early Wednesday morning, July 7, 2021, at his home in Port-au-Prince.
An event that threatens to further destabilize the poorest country in the Americas, already facing a dual political and security crisis.
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The announcement of the assassination was made by Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph. “
The president was assassinated in his home by foreigners who spoke English and Spanish. They attacked the residence of the President of the Republic, ”
he declared. "
The security situation is under control",
he added, declaring a few hours later the state of siege which grants reinforced powers to the executive. We react live in this special edition of the newspaper of Haiti and the Americas, with our correspondent
Amélie Baron
, the journalist
Frantz Duval of
Le Nouvelliste and our two guests,
Frédéric Thomas
, in charge of studies at CETRI, the tricontinental center for whom this assassination
"Is the marker of an uncontrolled and uncontrollable violence"
, and
Jean-Marie Théodat
, Haitian by origin, lecturer at the University Panthéon Sorbonne in Paris who sees in it the sign of
"a collapse of the State" .
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