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Haiti: Port-au-Prince, scene of bloody clashes between police and gangs
Haiti is sinking further into chaos, as at least four police officers have been killed since Thursday, February 29, in Port-au-Prince. The city is 80% controlled by criminal gangs, who threaten the Prime Minister with death.
(franceinfo)
Haiti is sinking further into chaos, as at least four police officers have been killed since Thursday, February 29, in Port-au-Prince. The city is 80% controlled by criminal gangs, who threaten the Prime Minister with death.
Residents of Port-au-Prince (Haiti) with their hands in the air, forced to flee amid exchanges of fire. The Haitian capital is once again plunged into chaos, the scene of bloody clashes between the police and criminal gangs. The population is bloodless. “I was going to pick up my children, it’s impossible. I can’t even go home”, confides one of them, Danois Auguste. Prime Minister Ariel Henry is traveling to Kenya to seek reinforcements to fight against criminal groups with the upcoming establishment of an international police force.
Port-au-Prince 80% controlled by armed gangs
Port-au-Prince is 80% controlled by a multitude of armed gangs, often rivals. If the clashes are recurrent, the attacks against the police today seem to be coordinated. Jimmy Chérizier, alias Barbecue, who presents himself as the leader of the movement, speaks of a sacred union of gangs, to overthrow the government. “Today it’s different. It’s all the community leaders, all the neighborhoods, all the gangs who took their responsibilities and launched this movement”he said.
Jimmy Chérizier, the most wanted man in Port-au-Prince, is a former police officer, ready to do anything to keep control of his stronghold. He claims to want to put an end to insecurity in Haiti.
