Half a year after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a suspect was arrested in the United States. He is charged with “conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States”.
A Colombian ex-soldier has been arrested and formally charged in the United States for the murder of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse last July. The 43-year-old is charged with “conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States,” the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. The Colombian and others broke into Moïse’s private residence in Haiti on July 7, 2021, to kill him, “and indeed the president was killed,” according to prosecutors.
The former soldier had fled to Jamaica and was arrested there in October. He was then supposed to be deported to his home country due to a lack of evidence. During a stopover in Panama, he was arrested again on Monday. According to Panama’s immigration authorities, he subsequently agreed to be extradited to the United States and was flown to Miami. He was supposed to be brought before a judge on Tuesday. In the USA, the 43-year-old faces life imprisonment if convicted.
Moïse killed by murder squad
The Colombians are said to have been originally recruited to bring Moïse under the pretext of an alleged arrest warrant. The now arrested said, however, according to the information that he had been informed by accomplices no later than July 6th that Moïse should be murdered instead. One of the suspects, a US Haitian, was reportedly in Florida a few days before the crime and asked alleged accomplices there for assistance in the arrest of Moïse.
Moïse was killed by a homicide squad in his home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. As a result, three Colombians were killed by security forces and 18 other Colombians were arrested along with two US citizens of Haitian descent. Dozens of other arrests later followed, including several Haitians.
The background to the fact remains in the dark. The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday that it was originally planned to kidnap the president. But this then turned into the plan to kill Moïse. The alleged head of the murder squad, a man with Haitian and US citizenship, is detained in Haiti.
The murder of Moïse worsens the crisis in Haiti
The Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, told the AFP news agency that he wanted “justice to triumph for the murder of Jovenel Moïse, not only for the former president, but also for his family and our nation”. On Monday he stated that he had escaped an assassination attempt on the weekend.
The misery in the impoverished Caribbean country has worsened since the murder of Moïse. Haiti has been in a serious political and economic crisis for years.
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