(Update 2200ET): Four suspected killers of President Jovenel Moise were fatally shot by police, and two others were arrested, AP reported citing Haiti Police Chief Léon Charles. Three police officers who had been held hostage were freed in the incident, AP said.
Haiti’s Communications Secretary Frantz Exantus said police had arrested Moise’s “presumed assassins” in an upscale neighborhood of Petionville, a suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince, AP previously reported. Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph earlier said the president was murdered by highly trained and heavily armed killers who stormed the presidential residence in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Update (1609ET): Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in an attack in the early hours of Wednesday at his private residence. Many are wondering how assassins penetrated the security perimeter of his heavily fortified home.
Perhaps new insight from The Miami Herald shows “assailants claimed to be agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to videos taken by people in the area of the president’s home.”
The Herald continued:
On the videos, someone with an American accent is heard yelling in English over a megaphone, “DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down.”
However, sources told the newspaper that the assailants, one of whom spoke English, were not with DEA but rather imposters.
“These were mercenaries,” a high-ranking Haitian government official said.
Here’s the video:
Insider Paper points out that in an interview on Democracy Now!, 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.”
Haiti is reeling from news that President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his home early Wednesday, following months of unrest over his unconstitutional term extension. “Clearly this was a fairly sophisticated operation,” says journalist Kim Ives (@kimives13). pic.twitter.com/34EI1sH78S
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) July 7, 2021
Biden Administration officials rejected the idea of DEA involvement.
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