Friday March 22, 2024 ((rezonodwes.com))–A gang leader linked to one of Haiti’s most powerful criminal organizations was shot dead by police in Port-au-Prince.
Ernst Julme, leader of the Delmas 95 gang – part of gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier’s “Viv Ansanm” alliance – was shot dead on Thursday, weeks after escaping from prison in a mass escape .
His death came a day after two other suspected Haitian gang members were killed and burned in a Port-au-Prince suburb, in an apparent act of vigilante justice.
Jimmy Cherizier, 46, known by the nickname “Barbecue”, heads a coalition of gangs called “G9 Family and Allies”, which has become the most powerful gang in Haiti. The federation of these gangs takes place under the “vigilant” gaze of BINUH, denounce many Haitian human rights defenders.
