Haiti: four police officers killed in an anti-gang operation
On Friday March 12, an operation was carried out in a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince which is controlled by a gang (illustrative image).
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In Haiti, insecurity is raging.
Kidnappings for ransom are daily in the capital and the police seem unable to cope.
On Friday March 12, an operation was carried out in a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince which is controlled by a gang.
It ended in a fiasco with the death of four police officers and the loss of equipment.
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With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince,
Amélie Baron
Bursts of heavy weapon fire echoed for hours on Friday morning in the Village de Dieu neighborhood.
It is a strategic area for the fight against villainous kidnappings, recalled the Director General of the Police Léon Charles during his very brief speech on Saturday noon: "
Yesterday's operation was a decisive phase in the action. that we have already led against this phenomenon because it is one of the places where they keep the majority of the people they kidnap.
In this operation, we lost four policemen.
Eight others are injured: five have already been released from the hospital, the other three are in stable condition.
And we lost material that remained in the theater of operations.
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The police director did not provide any details or explanations, but on social networks there circulated as early as Friday noon the images of the automatic weapons recovered by the gangs and also a terrible video in which we can see the lifeless bodies of two police officers. dragged to the ground and struck by unidentified individuals.
On local radio, the families of the killed officers pleaded with the authorities, the police and the gang leaders to hand over the remains of their loved ones so that they could bury them.
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