Haitian President Assassinated

[anansi]

Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated at Home, Official Says

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A group of gunmen wielding assault weapons assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife at their home in the hills overlooking Port-au-Prince early Wednesday, plunging the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation deeper into a destabilizing crisis.

The attack by assailants that Haitian authorities described as “commandos” comes amid months of escalating political instability and gang violence that have critically eroded the rule of law in the Caribbean nation of 11 million. Moïse, 53, dissolved parliament in January 2020 and ruled by decree as opponents and protesters demanded that he step down. Armed gangs with unclear allegiances have seized control of growing portions of the country, terrorizing the population with kidnappings, rapes and killings.
www.wsj.com/articles/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-at-home-official-says-11625654496

Wow! can Haiti and it's people catch a break??
1804 realized your dreams.

[thereal]

It's not like he leadership was benefiting the average Haitian.

[kel]

Tru. He seems to have been roundly despised by most Haitians.

But what is interesting is that

'The attack happened barely 24 hours after Moïse had named a new prime minister, Ariel Henry, to take charge as head of the government and prepare the country for presidential elections in the next two months'

Why kill him now after he finally relented on doing what most wanted ?

Perhaps certain factions who were backing him did not want him to relent. There is a lot of corrupt money to be made in chaos and lack of formal government.

[anansi]

Citizens urged not to lynch suspects in Haiti president assassination as SIX are captured alive

James Solages, a US citizen of Haitian descent, is one of the six people arrested so far, reported the Washington Post, citing Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections and interparty relations.

He told the paper that at least one other detainee is also believed to be a Haitian American.

Officials in mostly French and Creole-speaking Haiti said on Wednesday that the assassins appeared to have spoken in English and Spanish.

Haiti citizens urged not to lynch suspects
A crowd of locals gathered on Thursday morning to watch the police operation unfold, with some setting fire to the suspects’ cars and to the house where they had bunkered down.

Bullets were strewn in the street.

“Burn them!”, shouted hundreds of locals gathered outside the police station where the suspects were being held.
7news.com.au/news/crime/citizens-urged-not-to-lynch-suspects-in-haiti-president-assassination-as-six-are-captured-alive-c-3349296

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So American citizens are involved, this is getting more interesting.

[thereal]

Yes,very interesting indeed. But I don't see how those guy's citizenship factors into the assassination of Haiti president sense that country was screwed over by France and the United States historical. It's not like the place was stable,as they were still overcoming the affects of the earthquake and they weren't really a big trading partner with U.S to begin with.

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

They sayin a flock of Colombianos + 2 Yanks a kill him.


www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57766749

Angry civilians had joined the search for the gunmen, and helped police track down some who were hiding in bushes. The crowd set fire to three of the suspects' cars and destroyed evidence.

"We Haitians are appalled, we do not accept it," one man told AFP news agency. "We are ready to help because we need to know who is behind this, their names, their background so that justice can do its job."

Police chief Léon Charles called for calm, saying the public should not take the law into their own hands.

At the news conference on Thursday, police showed reporters Colombian passports.

"Foreigners came to our country to kill the president," Mr Charles said, as the suspects sat on the floor behind him in handcuffs.

Colombia's government has confirmed that at least six of the suspects appeared to be retired members of its military. It has pledged to assist Haiti with its investigation efforts.

one of the dual citizens arrested, James Solages, 35, is from Florida and was a former bodyguard at the Canadian embassy in Haiti.

An investigating judge told local media that Mr Solages and the other US citizen, named as Joseph Vincent, had said they were there as translators for the mercenaries, after finding the job on the internet.

"The mission was to arrest President Jovenel Moïse... and not to kill him," Judge Clément Noël told Le Nouvelliste.

Huh? They expect he survive multiple bucking and an including eye gauge?

[thereal]

Weird,I wasn't able to find any real connection with Haitians and Columbians to warrant a assassination. I wonder if it was just the Haitian American contracting crooked military dudes to take out the president.

[nebsen]

At this point things are to convoluted for me to try & make sense of what really is going on in Hatti which would just a guess on my part..so I will defer to a couple of more informed views than what ever I could comment on at this time..

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

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Haitian doctor with Florida connections arrested as a leader in Moïse assassination plot
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND JAY WEAVER JULY 11, 2021 05:34 PM


PORT-AU-PRINCE

A Haitian doctor who has been a fixture in Florida for more than two decades has been arrested in Haiti under suspicion that he was one of the leaders behind the middle-of-the-night assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last week, Haiti’s police chief said Sunday.

Christian Emmanuel Sanon’s name was mentioned by several of the people who are in custody in the case, Haiti National Police Chief Léon Charles said. Sanon was the first person one of the suspects called after being captured. The Haiti National Police arrested him as part of their ongoing investigation into the leadership of the group of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans suspected of carrying out the assassination.

Sanon “made contact with two other people who are implicated, they know who they are, and are recognized as intellectual authors of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse’,” Charles said.


Sanon’s arrest makes him the third person of Haitian descent who has been arrested in the killing. James Solages, 35, and Joseph G. Vincent, 55, Haitian Americans from South Florida, are also in police custody after turning themselves in hours after the killing.

The two Haitian Americans, who are now among 21 suspects in police custody, told Haitian officials during questioning that their mission was not to kill the president but to serve a 2019 arrest warrant that had been issued by a judge and to take Moïse to the presidential palace. There, they would install Sanon, 63, as president, a source who spoke with the two men told the Herald.

On Saturday, Charles had alluded to Sanon in a Miami Herald interview, though he did not name him. He said that the suspects, including the two Haitian Americans, confirmed that they worked for a company “based in the U.S. and Colombia.... [which] worked with the two Haitian Americans and a high-profile doctor here.”

The company is Miami-based CTU Security, registered in Florida as the Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy LLC.

“I would say that the Haitian [doctor] recruited CTU and CTU recruited the Colombians. That’s the pattern,” Charles said.

Sanon’s arrest comes as Haitian police, working with Colombian law enforcement, try to piece together the events leading to the death of Moïse, who was shot 12 times in the upstairs bedroom of his home around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Among the unanswered questions: How Sanon, who once filed for bankruptcy, could be behind a costly conspiracy. Some of the people arrested said that they were paid $3,000 a month and had been living in Haiti since January.

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During a press conference late Sunday, Charles said police have two ongoing investigations: one into the death of the president and the perpetrators, the other an administrative probe being handled by police internal affairs.

Questions have been raised about Moïse’s presidential guards and how the assailants were able to break into his residence and get past the guard gate and two dogs. Police sources have told the Herald that four members of the presidential security detail, including the head of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, Dimitri Hérard, have been removed from their leadership duties and must report daily to internal affairs. They have also been requested for questioning. Hérard is currently the subject of a US law enforcement investigation into arms trafficking in Haiti, the Washington-based Center for Economic Policy and Research reported this week.

Meanwhile, five Colombian former soldiers suspected of having been involved in the attack on the president’s home remain at large, while 18 others are now in custody.

Sanon arrived in Haiti in June on board a private plane with “political motivations,” Charles said, and recruited the suspects to provide him security as the new president of Haiti. According to interviews with the Colombian suspect, the group was initially recruited to provide Sanon security as a VIP, but the mission changed and they were told to serve an arrest warrant on Moïse. Charles did not address when or how the plan changed to kill Moïse.

At some point 22 other people landed in Haiti to join the first group already in the country.

Among the items police found at Sanon’s home after his arrest was a cache of arms and ammunition including six rifles, 9mm guns, 20 cartridges of bullets and four Dominican Republic license plates, Charles said.

Sanon has been living on and off in Florida for more than 20 years, from the Tampa Bay area to South Florida. Public records show that he has had more than a dozen businesses registered in the state, but most of them are inactive. They ranged from medical services to an energy company to real estate.

While he refers to himself as a doctor, records show no medical license in Florida, where he filed a federal bankruptcy case in Tampa in 2013. Court records refer to him as a doctor who works in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A YouTube video championing his work says he studied medicine in the Dominican Republic.

In his bankruptcy filing, Sanon also listed himself as church pastor at the Tabarre Evangelical Tabernacle, as president of a non-government organization called Organization Rome Haiti, and as president of Radio-Tele Vasco — all in Tabarre, Haiti.

Sanon had a home in Brandon, near Tampa, which he lost in a foreclosure before filing for bankruptcy. At the time, he said he had more than $140,000 in equity in the home. According to bankruptcy records, he was making an annual salary of $60,000 and had debts totaling more than $400,000. During the bankruptcy, Sanon switched his address from Brandon to Hollywood, then to Boynton Beach.

Other court records show that Sanon had been living in Margate, in Broward County, as far back as 1998, when he got a ticket for a traffic violation.

A video shared on YouTube describes Sanon as one of the leaders needed to represent the Haitian people, and that he has the support of more than 200 companies to foster the industrial development and socio-economic recovery of Haiti.

According to the video, Sanon was born in Jacmel in 1956 and studied biology in New York before studying in the Dominican Republic.

Miami Herald reporter Daniel Chang and McClatchy Washington Bureau reporter Kevin G. Hall contributed to this report.

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Police arrest Florida-based doctor accused of plotting assassination of Haitian president

By DAVID MATTHEWS
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JUL 12, 2021 AT 2:42 PM



Police in Haiti have arrested a Haitian living in Florida who is accused of plotting the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
Moise was killed Wednesday at his home in Port-au-Prince after gunmen raided his home.

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Police have so far arrested 20, including two Haitian-American men, in connection with the killing. Several suspects remain at large and three have been killed. However, investigators believed 63-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon was the mastermind.
According to officials, Sanon, a Haitian based in Florida, describes himself as a doctor and has accused Haiti’s leaders of corruption in the past.
Haitain President Jovenel Moïse speaks to the press after meeting US President Donald Trump during an event with Caribbean leaders hosted by Trump at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach Florida, on March 22, 2019.
Haitain President Jovenel Moïse speaks to the press after meeting US President Donald Trump during an event with Caribbean leaders hosted by Trump at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach Florida, on March 22, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
“He arrived by private plane in June with political objectives and contacted a private security firm to recruit the people who committed this act,” Haiti’s police chief, Léon Charles, said.
Investigators said Sanon hired 26 Colombian mercenaries and two Haitian-Americans through a Florida-based Venezuelan security firm called CTU. However, it is unclear if Sanon was real the mastermind behind the attack. According to The Guardian, Sanon once declared bankruptcy in Florida.
One of the suspects called Sanon after he was arrested and Sanon then called two unidentified people, Chief Charles said.
A search of Sanon’s home in Haiti also turned up bullets, gun parts, Dominican Republic license plates and a Drug Enforcement Agency hat. The attackers claimed to be DEA agents when they raided Moise’s home.
Records show Sanon had previously lived in Broward County and in Hillsborough County in Florida and in Kansas City, Mo.
Sanon has a long-history of publicly railing against the government of Haiti.
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“This is a country with resources,” Sanon said in a YouTube video. “Nine million people can’t be in poverty when we have so much resources in the country. It’s impossible … The world has to stop doing what they are doing right now. We can’t take it any more. We need new leadership that will change the way of life.”
With the Haitian government in disarray, including a potential power struggle between Moise’s former political allies, the interim leaders have asked for UN and U.S. military assistance in order to maintain order. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that President Biden had been briefed by a joint FBI and Homeland Security delegation that had recently traveled to Haiti but that the situation remained fluid.
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