Haiti Police Blame Colombian, US Suspects In President's Slaying
By Robenson GEFFRARD
07/09/21 AT 12:05 AM
A 28-member hit squad made up of Americans and Colombians assassinated President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that eight were still at large as the country lurched into political chaos.
One day after Moise was killed and his wife Martine wounded by gunmen in their Port-au-Prince home, the poorest country in the Americas has no president or working parliament and two men claiming to be in charge as prime minister.
Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assinated in his home Photo: AFP / CHANDAN KHANNA
Police paraded some of the suspects before the media Thursday, along with Colombian passports and weapons they had seized. The head of the Haiti's National Police, Leon Charles, vowed to track the other eight down.