Mediapart: The assassination of the Haitian president... the investigation turns into a farce and a poorly directed movie

Colombian mercenaries, FBI and DEA informants, a fake doctor priest, the head of the presidential guard suspected of arms trafficking, plots hatched in Bogota and Miami, a week after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the investigation is lost in a story Do not believe and do not answer the main questions.

In this conclusion, the French website Mediapart presents an article by François Bony, in which he attempts to shed light on what he considers a bad series that the Haitians have experienced since the assassination of their president Jovenel Moise at dawn on Wednesday, July 7, and is presented by the remnants of The authorities, in scant information, with which they are trying to build a story that hardly anyone believes.

The story, as presented to citizens, is that a group of Colombian mercenaries recruited by a fake doctor, who is at the same time a priest who lives in Florida and claims that "God chose him", is said to have brutally tortured and killed President Moyes, and that the case was a conspiracy plotted in Bogota and Miami, and carried out by foreign powers, almost The country is plunged into a very serious crisis, after the crisis of the last assassination of the country's president more than a century ago.

This information - according to the author - is provided by those who remain from power, and they are two men. One of them is interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who remained in his position and took control of the country, after Moyes had dismissed him two days before his assassination, and the second is Leon Charles, who is coordinating the investigation. He is the head of the Haitian National Police, known for its corruption and association with criminal gangs.

Don't be suspicious

The elements of the assassination story are characterized by the fact that they blame mysterious foreign powers and present various motives, such as drug smuggling and foreign political interference, but it does not dispel the suspicion that the assassination was sponsored by the ruling elite and the presidential party.

A source for the site in Port-au-Prince, who asked not to be identified, indicates that the matter is "a coup and the culmination of conflicts within the ruling party, because dealing with Moise has become difficult, and he was certainly killed by a member of his entourage."

The writer stated that this hypothesis, which is not supported by evidence so far, was widely adopted in the Haitian capital, even the head of the presidential party, Lenny Balthazar, admitted on Radio "Madec 9" that "all hypotheses are on the table", and that he could not rule out that the crime It comes from his political family. Indeed, the former Haitian senator and political figure Stephen Benoit stated that "the President of the Republic was assassinated by his security agents. It is not the Colombians who killed him, they are contractors with the Haitian state."

The case is summed up - as the writer says - in the words of the Attorney General, Claude Ford, who is responsible for the judicial investigation, "I did not see any police victim, except for the president and his wife, so where were the officials responsible for the president's security and what did they do to avoid this fate?!", especially since 21 Members of the presidential guard were at the presidential headquarters that night.

Prosecutor: I did not see any police victim, except for the president and his wife, so where were the officials responsible for the president's security and what did they do to avoid this fate?!

Investigating Judge Carl-Henri Destin, the first person to arrive at the crime scene on the day of the assassination, described to various media what he saw: “The doors were full of bullets, the windows were smashed and even the locks. Jovenel Moyes was lying on the floor. His shirt was torn and covered in blood. I saw 12 injuries caused by a gunshot wound to the body of the president.

Despite the scale of the attack described by the judge - as the writer says - none of the presidential guards were injured, and the judge does not find an explanation for this, but the heads of the various units responsible for the security of the presidency have since been subject to an administrative and judicial investigation, but some of them did not attend to summon the prosecution On July 12 and 13.

Perhaps Dimitri Herrar, head of the Republican Guard, the main guarantor of the president's security and responsible for his private residence, has something to tell the investigators if he agrees to meet them, knowing that - according to the Center for Economic and Social Relations in Washington - the target of an American investigation into arms smuggling to the criminal gangs that now control part of the capital in Washington. Haiti, is also a partner in the Florida-based private security firm Tradex Haiti SA.

Colombian mercenaries

For the head of the National Police, there is no doubt that 26 Colombian mercenaries and two Haitian-Americans participated in the assassination of Jovenel Moise, and indeed the police arrested 18 Colombians and killed 3 and 5 are still at large, but these men - according to the testimonies of their relatives collected by the Colombian media - They are employed to carry out personal protection in the context of public insecurity in Haiti.

The Colombian newspaper, El Tiempo, said that these men were said to have been deceived and summoned to the presidential residence after the crime and had fallen into a trap set by the National Police as scapegoats, which it believed explains their turbulent escape.

This was reinforced by the testimony of Jenny Cappador, the sister of one of the mercenaries, who told CNN that she received a phone call from him on the morning of July 7, in which he told her that they were "in a house under siege and under fire." They came too late to protect the person they were supposed to take care of. I imagine he's the president. The police surrounded them and he's going to try to mediate with them.” However, this Dobernay Cappador was killed a few hours later in the house surrounded by Haitian police, which is not the presidential residence.

The writer considered that this account gives credibility to the hypothesis of setting a trap for "special soldiers", especially since the Haitian authorities reported that Moise was killed at one in the morning, although many testimonies show that the arrival of the mercenaries to the presidential headquarters was around two thirty in the morning, after a long period of time. the crime.

As for the two Americans of Haitian origin who were arrested by the Haitian police and charged with participating in the assassination with Colombian mercenaries, they are - according to Judge Clement Noel, who interviewed them - translators who confirmed that Jovenel Moise was dead when they arrived at the presidential residence.

The President and his wife during the ceremony of his assumption of power (European News Agency)

sexy mastermind

As for the priest Christian Sanon, who, after his arrest, confirmed that he was the "mastermind" of the Haitian National Police, he arrived in Haiti in June "on a private plane" and, according to the police chief, recruited Colombian mercenaries through the private security company. CTU established by a Venezuelan in exile in Miami.

And that the plan was to arrest the president, "then the mission changed."

The writer considered that considering the priest as the "mastermind" is funny because he is a person facing serious financial problems, and he filed for bankruptcy in 2013, and he has debts amounting to 400,000 dollars, so how can he finance such an operation to recruit mercenaries and buy weapons, ammunition and cars?!

The writer saw that the priest, who told one of his relatives that "God chose him" to replace the president, is like a safety valve that was placed in a complex circle by the real sponsors of the crime.

In the conclusion, the writer asked - after the United States and Colombia sent investigators and intelligence officials to work with the Haitian police and investigative judges - will the "internationalization" of this investigation lead to the identification of the real culprits, or will political interests stifle the truth?