Since the assassination of the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, by an armed commando, the country is sinking even further into a political impasse.
Gangs clash in the streets and no substitute appears at the top of the state.
The result of years of corruption by different governments.
The fate is hitting Haiti.
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the inhabitants of the district where the Haitian President Jovenel Moïse resides are awakened by the shots.
Very quickly, the neighbors filmed with their cell phones.
Before fleeing in their 4x4, the members of the commando stand in the middle of the street and shout at the megaphone to calm the spirits that they are American anti-drug agents.
But following this event, the president is found dead at his home.
A political disorder since 1986
Is there a country in the world that can claim to have worse karma? There were the ten plagues of Egypt. No one is counting Haiti's misfortunes any longer. The assassination of the president on Wednesday is the umpteenth upsurge in a political system which has been living in chaos and which has been feeding off disorder since 1986. The country has known about twenty leaders. Only one has reached the end of the two mandates authorized by the Constitution. There have been coups d'état, armed insurrections, popular revolts. “Most Haitian presidents deserved to be ousted from power because they were not only incompetent: they were either bandits who wanted to get their pockets full or bloodthirsty reigning by terror. even all of this at the same time ",analyzes our Grand reporter Jean-Sébastien Soldaini.
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The assassinated president, Jovenel Moïse, for his part, let the gangs thrive in Haiti, sometimes with the support of the local police officers. "The juiciest business there are kidnappings for ransom. But Jovenel Moïse was far from the Duvaliers, father and son. They cut Haiti in rule for 30 years. Their death squads, called the Tontons Macoutes, sowed terror throughout the country, "continues Jean-Sébastien Soldaini. Result, in this chaos, the police are busy. "The police are in a situation where they have to face the armed gangs which are fighting among themselves or against the police forces", explains to Europe 1 Frantz Duval, the editor in chief of the newspaper
Le Nouvelliste
in Port-au-Prince. Which does not help the situation.
There is "in the Haitian Constitution no option to continue the state"
Since the assassination, four suspects have been killed by Haitian police and two arrested on Wednesday evening.
For now, the police do not give more details on the identity of the defendants or their motivations.
According to the editor of the newspaper
Le Nouvelliste
in Port-au-Prince, this assassination comes when the solutions to replace the president are all obsolete.
"The Parliament should meet to find a solution but it turns out that there is no Parliament at the moment. The Prime Minister could also replace him, but it was changed on Monday and the new one has not yet been installed, ”he explains.
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To put it simply, in the current situation, there is "in the Haitian Constitution no option to continue the state", continues Frantz Duval. Even the president of the Court of Cassation "died of Covid-19", he says. The interim prime minister has declared a state of siege across the country. Claude Joseph was to hand over to his successor, but he prefers to remain in charge of the country for the time being.