Santo Domingo.- As this Thursday marks the ninth month of the assassination against the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moisethe crime remains unsolved looking for possible intellectual authors in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, while the United States opened a process in its territory against two defendants.
It was in the early hours of July 7, 2021 when at least one commando made up of 28 attackers, including 26 Colombians and two Americans of Haitian origin, showed up at the president’s house in the Petion Ville sector of Port-au-Prince. housing without resistance and they killed him in his room, after torturing him.
Among the attackers, 15 were arrested by the Haitian Police, including the two Americans of Haitian origin, but so far it is unknown at what level the process against the accused is in the Haitian criminal jurisdiction courts.
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The only suspected intellectual author of Moise’s death arrested is the Haitian-American doctor, Christian Enmanuel Sanon, accused of recruiting and transferring part of the commando to Haiti.
In the midst of the persecution, three Colombians died and eight escaped, said the former director general of the Haitian police, Leon Charles, who was in charge of the institution.
The last arrested in relation to this case was former Haitian police officer Tanis Philome, against whom there was an international arrest warrant against him issued by the International Police (Interpol), accused of having participated in the assassination of Moise, was arrested in Dajabón, Dominican Republic and delivered to the Haitian authorities in March of this year by members of the Specialized Land Border Security Corps (CESFRONT).
In United States
In relation to this event, former Colombian soldier Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, was arrested at the Panama airport, Omar Torrijo, after he was deported from Jamaica, accused of participating “in the plot to kidnap or assassinate” the Haitian president in July past, says the US Department of Justice in a statement, is imprisoned in the United States.
Also under arrest in the United States is the Haitian spy, Jaar Rodolphe, who was detained in a hotel in Santo Domingo and deported to the United States.
