We know a little more about the circumstances of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

Haitian police announced Sunday evening that they had arrested the Haitian national accused of having recruited a commando group who committed the murder on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.

"This is an individual who entered Haiti aboard a private plane with political objectives," said Léon Charles, director of the Haitian national police.

On his arrival in the country in June, Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, of Haitian nationality, was accompanied by several Colombian nationals, responsible for ensuring his safety, according to details provided during a press briefing in the presence of several ministers. .

18 Colombian citizens arrested

“The mission then changed,” explained Léon Charles.

"The mission was to arrest the President of the Republic and the operation was mounted from there: 22 other individuals then entered Haiti" he added.

The interrogations carried out with the 18 Colombian citizens arrested since Wednesday allowed the Haitian police to learn that Christian Emmanuel Sanon had recruited the 26 members of the commando via the services of a Venezuelan security company called CTU, based in Florida.

The FBI on the spot

“When we, the police, blocked the progress of these bandits after they had committed their crime, the first person that one of the attackers called was Christian Emmanuel Sanon.

He, for his part, made contact with two other people whom we consider to be intellectual authors of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse ”indicated Léon Charles without detailing the identity of these two suspects.

Members of the FBI, the State Department, the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Homeland Security arrived in Haiti on Sunday and met with the director general of the national police.

A precarious calm

This assassination worsened the institutional crisis in which Haiti had already been plunged for months and which today leads three politicians to claim to be legitimate to ensure power by interim. The delegation of the United States met in separate meetings with the main actors of the political scene including Prime Minister Claude Joseph.

"I met the American delegation and together we appreciated the resolution of the Senate which chose me as provisional President of the Republic" for his part indicated Sunday evening on Twitter Joseph Lambert, President of the Senate.

Four days after the assassination of the Head of State, a precarious calm continues in Haiti given the gray areas surrounding this murder committed in the room of Jovenel Moïse, in his private residence yet under high surveillance.

No Haitian policeman was injured during the operations to apprehend the alleged Colombian mercenaries, three of whom were killed.

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