Haiti: gray areas of the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse

Many gray areas remain in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, here pictured in Port-au-Prince, in January 2016 (Image illustration).

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In Haiti, the director of the national police says he has put behind bars a Haitian, Christian Emmanuel Sanon.

The police maintain that this doctor is one of the intellectual authors of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse ... and that he recruited, through a company managed by a Venezuelan in Florida, the 26 members of the commando who joined returned to the President's private residence.

However, many gray areas remain in this investigation.

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The

Miami Herald

wonders, for example, how this Haitian accused of being the mastermind of the operation was able to finance this commando of 28 men when his company filed for bankruptcy several years ago.

Another question: how to explain that no one other than the president died that night, that no one intervened between him and the commando?

The Haitian daily

Le Nouvelliste

notes that those responsible for Jovenel Moïse's security are currently " 

under precautionary measures

 ".

►Also read: Haiti: arrest of one of the suspected brains of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse

Their service weapons have been taken away from them

 " and they must report morning and evening to " 

the general inspectorate

 ".

One of them, Dimitri Herard, the head of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, is "

 the subject of an investigation in the United States for arms trafficking

 ," according to

Ayibopost

.

According to the Colombian newspaper

Semana

, he makes frequent trips to Colombia.

Fake vocal note of Martine Moïse

As for the famous

Colombian mercenaries

 : how to explain that they did not flee after the assassination?

According to

Radio Tele Metronome

, even Bogota today speaks of confusion and expresses its solidarity with the families of these alleged mercenaries killed by the police.

To add to the confusion, the mystery remains around a voice note attributed to the First Lady, widely disseminated on official Twitter accounts of the Haitian government.

Martine Moïse, injured during the attack and currently being treated in Florida, calls there to

continue the battle

 "

led by her husband.

But this message would be false according to

Ayibopost

.

The independent Haitian media had the voice of the first lady analyzed by two "

 groups of experts in artificial intelligence

 ".

And they are categorical: this voice is not that of Martine Moïse.

►Also read

: Haiti: President Jovenel Moïse assassinated by a commando

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