HAITI CRISIS; PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED ; AMERICAN INVOLVED

HAITIAN CRISIS..

Haitian authorities say several of the “presumed assassins” have been apprehended after the midnight assassination of haitian President Jovenel Moïse in his home early Wednesday…

Four suspects were killed by police and two others were arrested, the associated press reported, citing Léon Charles, chief of Haiti’s National Police. Charles said three police officers who were taken hostage by the suspected assassins were also released after police swarmed the house where they were holed up.

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Dr. Claude Joseph, the interim prime minister who turned in the keys to his office and his official car as he officially left his post on Tuesday, was back at the office Wednesday morning. The recently appointed prime minister, Ariel Henry, was supposed to be sworn in the same day but went into hiding. And in the span of a few hours, the returning prime minister had promoted himself to president.

Speaking on National Haitian Television late Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Claude Joseph declared “a state of siege throughout the whole country.”

“I am appealing to the Haitian people’s intelligence in these difficult times,” he said. “I am appealing to everyone, every sector to come together to condemn what happened.”

AMERICAN INVOLVED

One American citizen is among the six people detained in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and there may be a second, Haitian officials said Thursday, adding to their assertions that “foreigners” had been involved in the brazen attack.

Angry civilians have also joined in the hunt, capturing some suspects themselves and setting afire vehicles thought to have been used in the attack. Haiti is now basically under martial law after Claude Joseph, the interim prime minister, declared an “état de siège” — a state of siege — that allows the police and members of security forces to enter homes, control traffic and take special security measures. It also forbids meetings meant to excite or prepare for disorder…



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