Claudejoseph in port au prince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, mr sackur. Its a pleasure. Thank you forjoining us in what is still a very difficult situation in your country. Tell me, since ariel henry, the prime minister, told the nation that he was quitting, has anything really changed around you in the capital port au prince, or in haiti . Has any of the violence, any sense of the crisis changed . I must say that, of course weve seen a change, days are calm. The. The people now are trying to move to. To the specific activities. Its a new page. Its a new chapter. It seems that people were waiting for this decision to be made. Er. Let me ask you something very simple. If you were to walk outside your own home right now onto the streets of port au prince, would you feel safe . I mean, are the police on the streets or are the armed gangs still running the streets . People, haitian people are not safe. I must say that. The situation is still a scary situation. People are still living a
But is there any prospect of more effective leaders emerging . Well, my guest is former acting Prime Minister claudejoseph. Can haitis unfolding catastrophe be reversed . Would an armed International Intervention make things better or worse . Claudejoseph in port au prince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, mr sackur. Its a pleasure. Thank you forjoining us in what is still a very difficult situation in your country. Tell me, since ariel henry, the Prime Minister, told the nation that he was quitting, has anything really changed around you in the capital port au prince, or in haiti . Has any of the violence, any sense of the crisis changed . I must say that, of course weve seen a change, days are calm. The. The people now are trying to move to. To the specific activities. Its a new page. Its a new chapter. It seems that people were waiting for this decision to be made. Er. Let me ask you something very simple if you were to walk outside your own home right now onto the streets of port au
Claudejoseph in port au prince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, mr sackur. Its a pleasure. Thank you forjoining us in what is still a very difficult situation in your country. Tell me, since ariel henry, the prime minister, told the nation that he was quitting, has anything really changed around you in the capital port au prince, or in haiti . Has any of the violence, any sense of the crisis changed . I must say that, of course weve seen a change, days are calm. The. The people now are trying to move to. To the specific activities. Its a new page. Its a new chapter. It seems that people were waiting for this decision to be made. Er. Let me ask you something very simple if you were to walk outside your own home right now onto the streets of port au prince, would you feel safe . I mean, are the police on the streets or are the armed gangs still running the streets . People, haitian people are not safe. I must say that. The situation is still a scary situation. People are still living a n
the guy in charge of killing president.or the operation of killing president moise. you and i must be very careful when we discuss this. this is an ongoing investigation. the gentleman that you just referred to, mr badio, who you say was at the centre of this assassination plan, well, he s gone missing. nobody knows where he is, and nobody knows what his attitude is to the charge that you ve just laid at his door. someone knows. someone knows, actually. he spoke two times in the morning, july 7th, with the prime minister. but again, the prime minister, mr henry, says he has no recollection of those conversations. i understand this is perhaps a very bad way to defend himself. correct? well, you re not an investigator yourself, mrjoseph, and it may be that some people looking at this interview will think, ah, well, there s a guy, there s a politician who is bitter and resentful, because you, when president moise was killed, you were in position as acting prime minister. yes. but withi
mr henry, says he has no recollection of those conversations. i understand this is perhaps a very bad way to defend himself. correct? well, you re not an investigator yourself, mrjoseph, and it may be that some people looking at this interview will think, ah, well, there s a guy, there s a politician who is bitter and resentful, because you, when president moise was killed, you were in position as acting prime minister. yes. but within two weeks, you were replaced by the very mr henry that you are now saying is involved in this plot to kill the president. so maybe this is just sour grapes on your part. you wanted to carry on being prime minister, didn t you? oh, no, no, no, not at all. i mean, the issue is not that. the issue is we are fighting to know the truth behind, you know, that assassination, what is really happening. and we do believe, based on all those evidence, that if we have mr henry, you know, as prime minister, we will never know,