Posted on 07/07/2021 8:27:48 PM PDT by bitt
Four “mercenaries” suspected of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were killed by police on Wednesday night — and two others were arrested in a tense gunbattle in the impoverished country, officials said.
Three officers were held hostage and freed in the standoff, according to Haiti’s police chief, Léon Charles.
“We blocked them en route as they left the scene of the crime,” he said. “Since then, we have been battling with them,” Charles said in a televised statement.
“They will be killed or apprehended.”
Moïse, 53, was killed in a gun attack at his home outside Port-au-Prince around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
The killers were earlier described by Bocchit Edmond, Haiti’s ambassador to the US, as “well-trained professional commandos” who were feared to have already fled the country.
Edmond earlier Wednesday also called the assassins “foreign mercenaries” who tried to pass themselves off as agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Towards the end of that video it sounds like a quiet night in Chicago.
Rd comments later.
This is the natural, traditional way that power transitions in Haiti.
Maybe?
Arkancided.
👌 did not know that. thx👍
One could easily argue the opposite. First reports probably have the most truth. It’s the subsequent fine-tuning and narrative shaping afterwards that is fake news.
FBI or CIA?
Probably not that obvious. He may have just been in power too long. Haiti is a hellhole that attracts cash. Our church had a team in there when the earthquake hit. The maneuvers to get them out were like a Mafia piece.
Someone else wanted to be the Don so this guy had to go. I doubt it is the last killing.
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