The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) accuses a 51-year-old Lévisien, Gérald Nicolas, of having “prepared a terrorist activity aimed at overthrowing the Haitian government of Jovenel Moïse”, the former president assassinated in July 2021 by an armed commando.
The RCMP investigation, “conducted by the Integrated National Security Team” beginning in July 2021 “after receiving information from the Service de police de la Ville de Lévis”, shows that the accused was planning the execution of “an armed revolution in Haiti to ultimately seize power”.
Gérald Nicolas “would have taken concrete actions, in particular by traveling to Haiti”, to organize a group dedicated to perpetrating a coup against the Moïse government. The investigation, the RCMP said in a statement, “is not related to the assassination” of the former president.
The accused will appear on 1er December to the Quebec City courthouse to face charges of leaving Canada to facilitate terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity and providing property for terrorist purposes.
More details will follow.
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