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A protester holds up a copy of the Haitian constitution during a protest to demand the resignation of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Haiti has lurched into a fresh political crisis amid allegations of a coup attempt and an escalating dispute over when the presidential term of Moise should end.
A Supreme Court judge in Haiti who had been arrested in an alleged coup plot against President Jovenel Moïse remained in jail Wednesday night despite a magistrate’s order that he be released.
Judge Grecia Norcéus ruled that Ivickel Dabrésil’s detention Sunday at 2 a.m. was outside the margins of the law and that as a high court justice he is required to go before a special tribunal, the head of a Haitian judicial organization and the magistrate’s defense lawyer both said.
The « President » Me Ivickel Dabrésil chosen by the radical opposition, arrested during the attempted coup and who was to be installed on Sunday February 7 as provisional President in the event of President Moïse s departure, had prepared a speech.
After the arrest of Judge Ivickel Dabrésil, who was to be installed by the opposition as provisional President, radical opposition parties appointed a new transitional President on the night from Sunday to Monday ..
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Port-au-Prince, Feb 7 (efe-epa).- The president of Haiti said Sunday that a coup attempt against him had been foiled, as the opposition called for him to step down.
Jovenel Moïse, who insists his term ends next year, said that a judge of the Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) and about 20 people allegedly conspired to replace him.
“I thank my head of security at the palace. The goal of these people was to make an attempt on my life. That plan was aborted,” the leader said before flying from the capital to Jacmel to take part in the Carnival.
Early Sunday on information from the intelligence services, the police arrested 23 people at the Petit Bois (Tabarre) dwelling, caught in the act of attempted coup and others charges.