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Haiti s interim PM confirms request for US troops to country Haitians wave their passports shouting Help, refugee, as they gather outside the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, July 9, 2021. A large crowd gathered outside the embassy amid rumors on radio and social media that the U.S. will be handing out exile and humanitarian visas, two days after Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in his home. Associated Press Colombian Armed Forces Commander Gen. Luis Fernando Navarro, center, National Police Director Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas, right, and Army Commander Gen. Eduardo Zapateriro give a press conference regarding the alleged participation of former Colombian soldiers in the assassination of Haiti s President Jovenel Moïse, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, July 9, 2021.
National Police Chief Léon Charles says 17 suspects have been detained and another eight are being sought. Author: EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO (Associated Press) Published: 2:40 PM EDT July 8, 2021 Updated: 10:59 AM EDT July 9, 2021
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Haitian authorities have made more arrests in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, raiding Taiwan s Embassy where several suspects are believed to have sought refuge, while also detaining two Haitian-Americans and several former Colombian soldiers allegedly tied to the plot.
In all, 17 suspects have been detained and another eight are being sought, according to National Police Chief Léon Charles.
“We are going to bring them to justice,” the police chief said, as the 17 handcuffed suspects sat on the floor during a news conference Thursday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Two men believed to be Haitian Americans one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, Haitian officials said Thursday.
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James Solages and Joseph Vincent were among 17 suspects detained in the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moïse by gunmen at his home in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday. Fifteen of them are from Colombia, according to Léon Charles, chief of Haiti’s National Police. He added that three other suspects were killed by police and eight others are on the run. Charles had earlier said seven were killed.
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Six people were arrested in the killing of Jovenel Moise and seven other suspected assailants were killed in a gunfight with police.
By EVENS SANON, DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMANAssociated Press
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Suspects in the assassination of Haiti s President Jovenel Moise sit on the floor handcuffed after being detained, at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. A Haitian judge involved in the murder investigation said that President Moise was shot a dozen times and his office and bedroom were ransacked. (AP Photo/Jean Marc Hervé Abélard)