Haiti: the assassination of the president is a "terrorist act", according to the Minister of Justice
Members of the Haitian police standing guard in Port-au-Prince, January 5, 2017 (illustrative image).
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In Haiti, since Monday morning and until Wednesday evening, a national mourning was decreed to honor the memory of the president of Port-au-Prince assassinated Friday at his home.
The resurgence of insecurity in the capital worries the entire population, but the authorities assure that they are working to fight gangs and criminals.
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With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince,
Amélie Baron
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The Republic will not bow to the bandits,
" the Haitian Minister of Justice assured Monday.
The shooting murder of Me Monferrier Dorval constitutes, according to him, one too many.
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Alongside the senior police officers and the government commissioner, who is the equivalent of the prosecutor, Rockefeller Vincent ensures that all means are mobilized to bring the investigation to a successful conclusion.
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No terrorist act will go unpunished and the shooting of the President of the Bar has all the characteristics of a terrorist act but which these cowardly perpetrators are still slow to claim.
Formal instructions have been passed and reiterated today for the repressive apparatus of the Republic to be set in motion so that these terrorists, including intellectual authors whoever they are, can be put out of harm's way and suffer the consequences. the most severe penalties in our legal arsenal.
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The Minister of Justice also denounced the dismissals that the prosecution very often pronounces immediately after the arrest of criminals by the police.
A
speech against impunity
which is unfortunately not new and which, if it is not followed by acts, will not be enough to reassure the population.
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