(20.02.2024)
Joseph and the former director-general of the national police, Leon Charles, were also found to have “sufficient indications” of involvement in the killing. AyiboPost specified that the document did not clearly identify the masterminds of the assassination, nor their financiers.
(20.02.2024)
A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, among others, according to a report obtained Monday.
Others who face charges including murder are Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian-American pastor who visualized himself as Haiti’s next president and said he thought Moïse was only going to be arrested; Joseph Vincent, a Haitian-American and former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Dimitri Hérard, presidential security chief; John Joël Joseph, a former Haitian senator; and Windelle Coq, a Haitian judge whom authorities say is a fugitive.
(09.07.2021)
Solages also worked as a security guard for the Canadian Embassy in Port-Au-Prince. (…)
Despite an obvious failure in police operations, the masthead of the police force has not changed, with Charles remaining the Chief of Police, despite claims from Haitian journalists that he gave the order to allow the caravan of assassins into the President’s neighborhood. In February, the Haitian National Police began a partnership with Colombian police forces, but it is unknown if any of the mercenaries arrested participated in this arrangement.
In the two days since the attack, former Prime Minister turned interim President Joseph has consolidated power. In 2004, Joseph was a member of the group Grenn Nan Bouda (GNB) which means “balls up your ass” in Haitian Creole. GNB participated in the coup to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that same year.
Joseph was not elected to his position, but was appointed in April by Moïse, and served only three months as Prime Minister. After declaring himself interim President, he has been breezily accepted by the international community, including the United States.
(07.09.2021)
Claiming to be agents with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (the DEA, which maintains a presence in Haiti to assist with counter-narcotics operations), the group gained entry to the home and killed the president.
(…)
What happened in Haiti on July 7?
KIM IVES There was a band of mercenaries with brand new Nissan Patrol vehicles. They clearly had knowledge of the layout of the presidential compound, where Moïse lived. They were clearly well-financed, well-prepared. It was a very sophisticated operation.
Who had the money to do that? And who would want to do that?
Haiti Liberté’s working hypothesis is that the mercenaries, more than likely, were hired by one or a consortium of the bourgeois families who are opposed to Moïse. Reginald Boulos is one. Dimitri Vorbe is another. There are several others who were unhappy with Moïse.
If this hypothesis is correct, their fear is of the uprising that is coming out of Haiti’s vast shantytowns, where the lumpenproletariat is organizing itself into armed gangs, which have now vowed to carry out a revolution against the bourgeoisie and “the rotten system,” as they call it in Haiti.
Der mit der Untersuchung des Mordes an Haitis Staatschef Jovenel Moïse beauftragte Ermittlungsrichter hat nur wenige Tage nach seiner Einsetzung den Fall abgegeben.
Die infrage kommenden Juristen haben demnach Angst um ihre Sicherheit und die ihrer Familie.
The funeral honors are taking place in the gardens of the Habitation Village SOS, the private residence of the Moise family, which is guarded by a heavy security apparatus. The coffin covered with the Haitian flag was carried by a funeral cortege of six soldiers of the Armed Forces in full dress.
Moise war in der Nacht auf 7. Juli in seinem Haus in der Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince von einem Mordkommando erschossen worden. Nach Polizeiangaben gehörten „26 Kolumbianer und zwei US-Bürger haitianischer Herkunft“ zu dem Kommando.
The Pentagon has confirmed four of the Colombian mercenaries accused of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moïse once received U.S. military training at Fort Benning in Georgia while they were members of the Colombian armed forces.
Henry, named by Moise days before the controversial president was shot dead in his home in Port-au-Prince in the early hours of July 7, will lead a cabinet of 18 officials, five of them women.
Am Sonnabend – zehn Tage nach der Ermordung des Staatspräsidenten Jovenel Moïse – »ermutigte« die sogenannte Kerngruppe einer Mitteilung zufolge nachdrücklich den Exinnenminister Ariel Henry, eine »konsensuelle und inklusive« Regierung zu bilden. Der Kerngruppe gehören unter anderen die Botschafter Deutschlands, der USA und der EU in Haiti sowie ein Vertreter des UN-Generalsekretärs an.
Interimsministerpräsident Claude Joseph werde auf seinen bisherigen Posten als Außenminister zurückkehren. Die neue Regierung werde „so bald wie möglich“ Wahlen organisieren.
The Core Group is composed of ambassadors from Germany, Brazil, Canada, Spain, the U.S., France, the European Union and representatives from the United Nations and the Organization of American States.
(09.07.2021)
Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated this week by alleged mercenaries. In an interview with Jacobin, the English language editor of Haiti Liberté says he suspects that some of Haiti’s richest families hired the attackers to preempt a potential revolution — and possibly even trigger US military intervention.
„Reginald Boulos ist einer der reichsten Männer Haitis und derjenige, der am meisten mit Moïse verfeindet ist. Ich glaube, er ist aus dem Land geflohen. Gegen ihn lag ein Haftbefehl vor, was ihn auch motiviert haben könnte, eine Söldnereinheit zu unterstützen, um Moïse zu töten. Vielleicht war jedoch mehr Geld nötig, als eine Familie allein aufbringen konnte. Es könnten mehrere Familien beteiligt gewesen sein. So wie es bei früheren Putschen passiert ist, wie etwa dem gegen den ehemaligen Präsidenten Jean-Bertrand Aristide ‒ damals wurde in der Bourgeoisie eine Sammlung gemacht, und sie bekamen Zehntausende Dollar zusammen, um den Putsch 1991 zu unterstützen.“
The detention of Dimitri Hérard was confirmed by Bed-Ford Claude, a Haitian prosecutor; Israel Jacky Cantave, a spokesperson for Haiti’s prime minister; and Carl Martin, a close friend and colleague of Hérard’s. Much public anger has been directed against Hérard, as Haitians wonder how a team of alleged assassins appeared to easily infiltrate Moïse’s residence only to be later swiftly taken into custody.
It isn’t clear on what charges, if any, Hérard is being held. “The justice [system] wants him to answer questions,” Claude told The Washington Post.
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was killed last Wednesday in an operation that Haitian authorities say involved at least 28 people, many of them Colombian mercenaries hired through a Florida-based security company.
At least one of the men arrested in connection to the assassination by Haitian authorities previously worked as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA said in a statement in response to CNN.
Sanon, who reportedly has lived on-and-off in Florida for about two decades, landed in Haiti on a private plane in early June with “political objectives,” Haiti’s police chief, Léon Charles, told reporters Sunday. He recruited the team through a Venezuelan security firm based in the United States, but its mission changed when one member was presented with an arrest warrant for Moïse.
The national police chief indicated that he believes a Florida-based doctor, Christian Emmanuel Sanon, was plotting to assume the presidency. The U.S. dispatched a team to assist in the investigation.
Nonetheless, the American political and media establishments seem to blithely assume that Haiti’s internal affairs are very much America’s business. State Department spokesman Ned Price says “It is still the view of the United States that elections this year should proceed.” An “electoral timetable” proposed by Moïse was “backed by the Biden administration, though it rejected plans to hold a constitutional referendum.”
The US State Department and Pentagon both confirmed receiving a request for „security and investigative assistance“ and said officials remain in contact with Port-au-Prince, but did not specify whether military troops would be deployed.
The UN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Two men believed to be Haitian Americans — one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince — have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti‘s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.
A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was composed of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities have said, as the hunt goes on for the masterminds of the killing.
Moïse, 53, was fatally shot early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was a group of foreign, trained killers, pitching the poorest country in the Americas deeper into turmoil amid political divisions, hunger and widespread gang violence.
A quarter of a century later, when the people of Haiti longed to elect Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, the CIA, with the authorization of President Reagan, funded candidates to oppose him, according to William Blum in Killing Hope.
Als 1959 eine kleine Gruppe von Haitianern versuchte, den grausamen, von den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika unterstützten Diktator „Papa Doc“ Duvalier zu stürzen, half das US-Militär, das in Haiti war, um Duvaliers brutale Truppen auszubilden, nicht nur, die Rebellen ausfindig zu machen, sondern beteiligte sich auch an den Kämpfen, die sie niederschlugen.
Der Einsatz in der Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince dauere an. Die Polizei machte keine Angaben zur Identität der mutmaßlichen Angreifer oder zu möglichen Tatmotiven.
In an appearance on Democracy Now! Wednesday morning, Haiti Liberté journalist Kim Ives said that while it is not yet clear who was behind the killing, „clearly this was a fairly sophisticated operation.“
„This morning, at one o‘clock in the morning, July 7, a group of unidentified persons, speaking in Spanish and English, assassinated the President of the Republic. The president has died of his wounds,“ said acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph.
Die Angreifer seien demnach auffällig gut mit modernen Waffen ausgerüstet gewesen, angeblich hätten sie Spanisch und Englisch gesprochen. Amtssprache auf Haiti ist Kreolisch.
Haitian newspapers printed names that corresponded to social media profiles of U.S. citizens claiming military backgrounds.