UPDATE: Haitian Police Announce Arrests In President Jovenel Moïse’s Assassination — Gruesome Details Released
According to the Daily Mail, four suspected assassins have been shot dead and another two were arrested after Haiti’s president was killed in a raid on his home early Wednesday morning.
Haiti’s National Police made the announcement late Wednesday that they had killed four of the alleged criminals and took two others into custody — and were still engaged in a fierce gun battle that they expected to last through early Thursday: “We are chasing them so that either in the exchange of fire they will be killed or we will apprehend them,” police chief Leon Charles said. “We will continue to hunt them down,” the New York Post quotes. Haiti’s ambassador to Washington, Bocchit Edmond, said the killers were “professional” mercenaries disguised as US Drug Enforcement Administration agents who spoke both English and Spanish.
According to the news site citing a local judge, President Jovenel Moïse‘s body was found riddled with a dozen high-caliber bullets — with one of his eyes blown out: “We found twelve holes in the president’s body,” Pétion-Ville deputy justice of the peace Carl Henry Destin told Haiti’s largest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, saying they were “made with a large caliber weapon.” “The president’s office and bedroom were ransacked. We found him lying on his back, blue pants, a white shirt smeared with blood, his mouth open, his left eye blown out,” the judge told the French-language paper.
The judge went on to reveal, “We saw a bullet impact at the level of his forehead, one in each nipple, three at the hip, one in the abdomen.”
Now, despite Moïse having his own security detail, strangely, only the president and his wife, Martine Moïse, were shot during the hit squad’s raid. The Daily Mail reports that the First Lady was shot in the leg and arm, and seriously wounded in the abdomen and hand – and has been airlifted to Miami for treatment. She is expected to survive.
It was also noted by The Post that
one of the couple’s three children, daughter Jomarlie Jovenel Moïse, was home at the time of the attack, but hid from the assassins in her brother’s bedroom. It was also said by the judge that the brother — who was not identified — was tied up alongside a maid.
As a result of the chaos, Haiti’s interim prime minister has declared he’s in charge and declared a state of siege.
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The assassins of the Haitian president were foreigners but "there is no doubt" that they had some internal help, says Bocchit Edmond, Haitian ambassador to the US.
"We need to continue with the investigations and look and identify those who financed them." pic.twitter.com/JV77dvE5LF
— CNN (@CNN) July 8, 2021