Anger rises in Haiti. Several thousand people demonstrated, Friday, October 11, in the main cities of Haiti, on appeal of the opposition which claims, for more than one month, the resignation of the president Jovenel Moïse, a contestation which paralyzes the activities of the country .

In the capital, thousands of people from the poorest neighborhoods walked towards the residence of the head of state, erecting several barricades in their path.

"The bourgeois minority continues to support Jovenel because it enjoys the crass inequality of our society.We continue to live in poverty but we say stop.We are only claiming for a just cause, for our rights of base "explained Wiston Saint Jean, 33, an activist from one of the opposition political parties who took part in the procession of Port-au-Prince.

The popular mobilization against Jovenel Moïse, decried by the most radical opponents since taking office in February 2017, escalated in late August following a widespread fuel shortage across the country.

Mostly young and from disadvantaged neighborhoods, the demonstrators demand all the more the resignation of the head of state that the companies he led before his entry into politics were pinned by the Superior Court of Accounts as being "at the heart of 'a misappropriation scheme'.

Friday afternoon, violent clashes between protesters and police when, after several kilometers of uneventful course, they prevented the crowd to continue its progress to the neighborhood where the presidential home is located.

Real life bursts

Dispersing the protesters by making extensive use of tear gas canisters, the police also fired several bursts of live ammunition, observed an AFP journalist.

Eyes reddened by the effects of tear gas, Makendy Jean-Baptiste says he will continue to demonstrate. "See the blood of the journalist who sank yesterday, this blood is like a serum in my veins that gives me strength: it must change the system," says the 30-year-old demonstrator with conviction.

Nehemiah Joseph, a correspondent for two opposition radio stations in the town of Mirebalais, about 50 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince, was forced to put himself in the trunk of his car before being killed by three bullets by unidentified individuals.

Criticism of the government in place, Nehemiah Joseph regularly denounced the mismanagement of the political crisis by local authorities. He had recently reported on social networks being threatened.

This is the second murder of journalists in Haiti since the beginning of the year.

With AFP