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
".
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"
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.
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: Haiti: President Jovenel Moïse assassinated by a commando
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