According to the AFP agency, the police chief stated that 15 Colombians and two Americans have been detained so far, the police shot three Colombians and eight of them are still on the run.
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“We will bring them to justice,” Charles said of the 17 detainees suspected in handcuffs at a press conference.
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According to the AP, the suspects include two with US citizenship: James Solage, who previously worked as a bodyguard for the Canadian embassy, and Joseph Vincent. Thirty-five-year-old Solage is the youngest of the suspects, the oldest is 55 years old.
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Assassination in the residence
The assassination was committed on Wednesday at the president’s private residence in the metropolis of Port-au-Prince. The Haitian first lady, who suffered severe injuries during the attack, was taken to a hospital in Miami, according to American media.
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After the death of the president, Prime Minister Claude Joseph took over the leadership of Haiti, declaring a state of emergency for two weeks, the security of which is supervised by the army.
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Security failure
The prosecutor’s office in Port-au-Prince summoned officials responsible for the security of the head of state over the assassination. This was stated by the AFP agency with reference to the statement of the head of the prosecutor’s office in the Haitian capital.
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“I have given the Central Criminal Police Directorate the mandate to interrogate all security agents around President Jovenel Moïse,” said Bed-Ford Claude, a government commissioner in Port-au-Prince. Two senior security officials responsible for protecting the president are summoned on July 13 and 14.
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Claude paused at the apparent passivity or inaction of the protection of the head of state. The president was killed by a dozen bullets in his home in the middle of the night. “I spent the whole day in the president’s residence and I did not see any police officers suffer, only the president and his wife. If you were responsible for the president’s security, where were you? What did you do to make the president escape this fate? ” Claude asked.
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Crisis in Haiti
During his reign, Moïse faced a series of anti-government protests over the deteriorating economic situation and the unpunished embezzlement of state money under the country’s former leadership.
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His assassination stunned a country facing the greatest poverty, violence and political instability in the Western Hemisphere. Inflation and gang violence increased, some of them made a living by abducting people, including foreigners, for ransom, and food and fuel became scarcer. About 60 percent of Haitians earn less than two dollars a day. Haiti has still not fully recovered from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew in 2016, the AP agency said.
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