Insecurity in Port-au-Prince: a policewoman receives 5 bullets from bandits during a kidnapping attempt.
It is the countdown before the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti (MMASS). The bandits threaten to intensify armed violence before the end of May, according to the agenda planned by their boss.
Policewoman Barbarah Fécu, 32nd promotion of the Haitian National Police (PNH), was assassinated this Wednesday by heavily armed men on rue Camille Léon, downtown Port-au-Prince. According to the National Union of Haitian Police Officers (SYNAPOHA), the victim was trying to escape a kidnapping attempt when she was attacked by men on a motorcycle.
Furthermore, her close witnesses to the crime report that the police officer assigned to the General Directorate of the National Police of Haiti (DG/PNH), received 5 projectiles in the head and died instantly. Accompanied by her child whom she took to school, she did not have time to react, continues SYNAPOHA. His service weapon was also taken away by the thugs, underlines the union.
The assassination of Barbarah Fécu brings to 17 the number of police officers killed by armed civilians since the start of 2024. It should be noted that the escape from the National Penitentiary and the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison on March 2 has raised fears of the worst with more than 6,000 inmates on the run.
Hervé Noël
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