Etiket: gangs
A pimp and close to guilty gangs
A street gang relative who once survived a shooting has been convicted of pimping after putting his victim through hell for six months. “The accused physically and psychologically forced her…
Ottawa and Washington sanction two Haitian personalities suspected of helping gangs
Canada announced on Friday the first sanctions surrounding the crisis in Haiti, which target a current Haitian politician and a former one. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs…
salvador | More than 55,000 arrests in less than seven months of “war” against gangs
(San Salvador) More than 55,000 suspected members of criminal gangs, the dreaded “maras”, have been arrested in El Salvador since President Nayib Bukele declared a “war” at the end of…
Haiti | The use of sexual violence by gangs worries the UN
(Port-au-Prince) Haiti’s gangs, which hold the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince, use rape and sexual violence to “spread fear” and extend their control over a country already plagued by insecurity…
salvador | 50,000 people arrested since the start of the “war” against gangs
(San Salvador) Police in El Salvador have arrested 50,000 people since the start of a “war” on gangs declared five months ago by President Nayib Bukele, authorities said on Tuesday.…
Gangs on the offensive in Haiti
Gangs are gaining power in Haiti against a backdrop of political paralysis and are increasing bloody clashes in the Port-au-Prince region to expand their territory, killing hundreds of people in…
Clashes between gangs in Port-au-Prince leave at least 89 dead
At least 89 people have been killed in a week in clashes between gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital where prices are soaring and fuel shortages are getting worse, threatening crucial…
Haiti | Clashes between gangs in the capital have left at least 89 dead in a week
(Port-au-Prince) At least 89 people have been killed in clashes between gangs that have paralyzed part of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince for a week, a non-governmental organization announced on Wednesday.…
the “Chrysalis Academy” wants to offer a future to young people in Cape Town neighborhoods plagued by gangs
The “Chrysalis Academy” provides young South Africans with a structure where discipline and training allow them to get out of the hell of gangs. Due to the growing number of…
the “Chrysalis Academy” wants to offer a future to young people in Cape Town neighborhoods plagued by gangs
The “Chrysalis Academy” provides young South Africans with a structure where discipline and training allow them to get out of the hell of gangs. Due to the growing number of…
El Salvador: State of emergency introduced after wave of homicides attributed to gangs
The Parliament of El Salvador, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, approved on Sunday the establishment of a state of emergency for one month in this small Central American…
In Kenya, avocado production whets the appetite of criminal gangs
It is from the center of the country, a hilly region where the rains are more abundant than elsewhere, that the majority of avocados leave Kenya, mainly heading for Europe.…
Street Gangs and Guns | Our concrete proposals to elected officials
The murders of three teenagers in 2021, Meriem Boundaoui, Jannai Dopwell-Bailey and Thomas Trudel, and that of Amir Benayad in 2022, challenge us. Young victims of sexual exploitation also. The…
a PS senator “not surprised” because the State “has let the gangs prosper”
“I am not more surprised than that” because the state “let the gangs thrive”, reacts the socialist senator of Guadeloupe and former Minister of Overseas from 2012 to 2014 Victorin…
In Haiti, the gangs are “all-powerful”, for this journalist who survived a deadly attack
“The bullets were fired”: the only survivor of the attack where two Haitian journalists lost their lives on Thursday, murdered by a gang on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Wilmann Vil…
Journalists attacked in Haiti | Gangs “much better armed than the police”, according to a survivor
(Port-au-Prince) “The bullets were firing”: the only survivor of the attack where two Haitian journalists lost their lives on Thursday, murdered by a gang on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Wilmann…
12 of 17 North American missionaries kidnapped by gangs in mid-October have been freed
On October 16, the group was kidnapped after visiting an orphanage west of the capital Port-au-Prince. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of one million dollars per hostage. Article written…
Haiti: misery and gangs at the origin of the tragedy of the tanker
The misery in which a majority of Haitians survive and the stranglehold of gangs on the country worsened the toll of the explosion on Tuesday of a tanker truck in…
meet the young people who clash between rival gangs
Two teenagers died in Essonne, during clashes in Saint-Chéron and Boussy-Saint-Antoine early last week. Faced with this phenomenon of brawls between rival gangs, the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and…
Three injured in a clash between rival gangs in Audincourt
A hectic evening in the Champs Montants district in Audincourt this Saturday, December 11. At around 10 p.m., the firefighters intervened to a brawl between two rival gangs, in the…