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a large-scale demonstration took place on the streets of Port-au-Prince on 20 September 2019 against the fuel shortage and a designated culprit, Jovenel Moïse, the president. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP

Activities continue to be paralyzed in Haiti. For more than three weeks, the country is experiencing a shortage of fuel and the situation has revived the mobilization of the opposition against President Jovenel Moise. Friday, September 20, a large demonstration took place in the capital that ended in clashes between protesters and police.

With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Amélie Baron

The president has still not commented on the crisis that paralyzes the country and is now targeting it. The idea that subsidies on fuels are removed does not pass among the poorest Haitians like Toussaint Claude. " We are fighting for a state that takes into account the socio-economic situation of the inhabitants of lower-income neighborhoods. If the state were really poor, the rulers would go and fetch all the unpaid money because of the big smuggling, but the bourgeois are their friends, they do not charge taxes, the money could be used to subsidize fuels. It is on us, who have the least means, that they come to serve themselves. It's social injustice, we can not take it anymore! "

→ Listen again: the price of fuel, a topic of contention in Haiti

Thousands of protesters soon found themselves facing a large deployment of police officers. Throwing stones against tear gas canisters, the clashes were intense with several bursts of live fire from the police. In anger, the demonstrators again raised a number of barricades on one of the main axes of the capital.