Assassination of the Haitian president: the US Congress orders the opening of an investigation

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7, 2021 by a commando.

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Six months after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the US Congress ordered the State Department to produce a detailed report on the circumstances of this crime.

This news comes as the investigation in Haiti stalls.

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The bipartisan law passed by the Senate this weekend has yet to go through the House of Representatives.

But once enacted, the US State Department will have three months to provide a report on the circumstances that led to the

on July 7, on the perpetrators and sponsors of the crime, but also on the possible pressures that may have weighed on the Haitian investigators.

The senators also want to know if any

could have hindered the official investigation in Haiti or if some of the perpetrators of the assassination could have been, in the past, employed by the American government. 

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Immediately after the murder of the Haitian president, FBI agents were dispatched to Port-au-Prince to collaborate with the Haitian authorities.

But it is clear that the investigation in Haiti is bogged down, like other investigations into other serious crimes.

In 2018 in La Saline, a poor district of the Haitian capital, a massacre killed more than 100 people.

Again, US senators are asking for a detailed report from the State Department. 

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