Headlines: Haitian police deny Colombian media revelations
Haitian police patrol the streets after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 12, 2021. REUTERS - RICARDO ARDUENGO
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The news made the front page of the Colombian press. The
Caracol
television channel
maintains that the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in Haiti is getting closer to Claude Joseph, the interim Haitian Prime Minister, who took power last week. The investigation unit of this media says it relies on sources in Haiti and within the FBI. Information formally
denied by the general direction of the Haitian national police
. In a statement published on her Twitter account, the latter maintains that "
the clues and other information collected as part of the investigation do not reveal any link with the Prime Minister in place
".
The journalists of
Noticias Caracol
assure on the contrary to have got their hands on "
phone calls and photos linking Claude Joseph to the Colombian mercenaries
", without publishing these photos.
This famous Colombian television show argues that the assassination "
began to be planned in November 2020"
at the headquarters of a company of the private security company CTU in Miami, Florida.
Among the participants in this meeting in particular: the American of Haitian origin, James Solages, and the Haitian national Christian Emmanuel Sanon, two men arrested in recent days in Port-au-Prince.
A plan changed at the last minute?
Also according to the Colombian media, those present at this meeting would have first planned to remove the president to place the current interim prime minister in power.
It was at the last moment that the plan would have changed and the order was given to eliminate the president.
If there was no escape plan for these Colombian mercenaries, it is because Claude Joseph had promised them "
protection and work
", maintains
Noticias Caracol
.
With this clarification: of the 28 mercenaries, only seven knew what the final plan consisted of.
The version of the Haitian national police
The Haitian national police give a completely different version as explained to us this Thursday Frantz Duval, editor in chief of the newspaper
Le Nouvelliste
. "
Photo in support, the director general of the police explained that a meeting took place in a hotel in the Dominican Republic where the intellectual authors, financial, the henchmen, met with other Haitian actors for plan the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. This is what the official word says
, ”notes the journalist. "
Small change Wednesday: the director general of the police was all alone, the Prime: Minister Claude Joseph was not with him for once
".
The head of presidential security Dimitri Hérard has meanwhile been placed in solitary confinement.
"
24 police officers who ensured the security of the president, both the officials of the security body but also the agents who were present in the evening of July 6 to 7, are detained by the General Inspectorate of the Haitian police
", specifies the editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste.
"Dimitri Hérard and other officials did not appear before the investigating judge because for the moment they are being held by the police
".
Cuba: does the president change his tone after the protests?
After the unprecedented demonstrations that have affected Cuba, the government, which has restored mobile internet, has just announced a round of measures, explains
Cubadebate
. In particular, it will lift the restrictions so that travelers can take food, medicines and hygiene products at will in their suitcases from Monday, without paying customs duties. This is an "
exceptional and temporary measure"
, insists the Prime Minister who appeared on television accompanied by President Miguel Diaz-Canel. The
Miami Herald
notes "
a more conciliatory tone
" from the Cuban leader. The latter declared that there were "
mercenaries
" and "
delinquents
In the demonstrations, "
but also people with legitimate discontent which has not been adequately addressed by state institutions
."
These statements come after fierce criticism of the repression of demonstrations. They emanate in particular from several artists based on the island, like the famous group Los Van Van, writes
14ymedio
,
but also "
from personalities previously favorable to the regime or very cautious in the expression of their political opinions
", like the musician Chucho Valdés . According to
14ymedio
,
which bases its figures on several civil society reports, more than 5,000 people have been imprisoned since Sunday or are under investigation, including more than 120 activists and independent journalists.
El Nuevo Herald
, in Miami, publishes the video of a very violent police intervention in a house in Matanzas, in the north of Cuba, where there was a family with young children.
The father of the family was shot dead.
Miguel Diaz-Canel for his part "
denied any repression
" and "
defended the actions of the police,
" notes the
Miami Herald.
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