P-au-P, August 27, 2024 [AlterPresse] — The Union of Progressive Parents of Students of Haiti (UPEPH) asks the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), the government and the high command of the Haitian National Police (PNH) to take the necessary measures to allow the resumption of road transport activities south of the capital, Port-au-Prince, blocked for two months, in a note of protest of which the online agency AlterPresse has become aware.
Actions must also be taken to regain control of all areas controlled by armed bandits and to facilitate the return of tens of thousands of families to their homes in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
UPEPH criticizes the decision of the police authorities of Léogane to prevent transport vehicles from the far south from traveling to Port-au-Prince and vice versa.
“This measure would be good if it aimed to truly curb the criminal actions of bandits. Instead, it promotes the enrichment of a family,” regrets UPEPH.
The boats of this family transport, towards the South and Miragoane (Nippes, a part of the South-West), containers and tanks of gasoline for 1,500.00 to 2,000.00 US dollars (Editor’s note: US $ 1.00=+ 140.00 gourdes; 1 euro=148.00 gourdes; 1 Canadian dollar=98.00 gourdes; 1 Dominican peso=2.40 gourdes today). Which induces an increase in the prices of products in the great South, she reports.
A plane ticket, which cost 100.00 US dollars, has gone up to 150.00 US dollars, for the trip Cayes-Port-au-Prince, she adds.
The decision to block traffic on the land routes south of Port-au-Prince is intended to prevent Gressier’s bandits from extorting money from the population and finding money to operate, according to the Union of Progressive Parents of Students of Haiti, citing explanations from the national police.
Angry, the armed bandits looted all the other houses, which were spared during their attacks, and took away several vehicles, she reports.
Several suspected bandits were killed by the police and two firearms seized in Gressier, the PNH announced on August 24, 2024.
The operation was carried out, among others, by the Anti-Gang Tactical Unit (UTAG) and the PNH Intervention Group (GIPNH/SWAT).
Around twenty bandits were killed in Gressier and Carrefour (respectively approximately 30 km and 15 km south of the capital, Port-au-Prince), on Sunday August 11 and Thursday August 8, 2024.
On Sunday, August 11, 2024, seven (7) suspected bandits were killed during an operation carried out by the Haitian National Police (PNH) in the locality ofShallot in Gressier, informs the police institution in a note on his account X.
A rifle was also seized by the PNH.
Furthermore, on Thursday, August 8, 2024, the gang leader of several neighborhoods in Rivière Froide, Marc-Arthur as he is known, and around ten of his allies were killed in Carrefour in clashes with other members of the gangs named Peter and Christ-Roi Chéry (Krisla). [emb rc apr 27/08/2024 13:10]
