Port-au-Prince, March 22, 2024 [AlterPresse] — On Thursday afternoon, March 21, 2024, there is a young basketball player named John Exdès Germain, 28 years old, who died in hospital, after receiving a brown bullet in the head while he was at home, in the Post Machan area, Port-au-Prince. At the time, there were gangs with guns that were firing a lot of shots on Chanmmas, not far from the Merchant’s Post
On Thursday, March 21, 2024, former police officer Ernst Julmé, better known as “Ti Grèg”, who became the head of the Dèlma 95 gang, died in a shootout with the national police in the Dèlma 66 area. Ernst Julmé escaped from Port-au-Prince prison, Saturday, March 2, 2024, when approximately 4 thousand prisoners managed to escape from the National Penitentiary, after gang attacks with weapons.
The people of Dèlma and Petyonvil continue to bury, this week, several corpses of people, which have begun to burn. No one knows under what circumstances these people die on the street
This week, there continued to be a great rush under Délma, when bandits with weapons were making maneuvers to attack the Cimo base. The national police have come face-to-face with the armed gangs, according to information obtained by AlterPresse and AlterRadio.
On Wednesday morning, March 20, 2024, the people of Laskawobas, Central Plateau department, passed the name of a young man named Fendy Vilesse, who would associate the gang with the weapons of the 400 Mawozo. This happened at the time when the national police was on the way to take Fendy Vilesse to the city of Mibalè, he was arrested, according to what the national police said.
On Thursday, March 21, 2024, on 4 days, gangs and weapons released Lucien Jura, the former spokesman of Michel Martelly and Jovenel Moïse, kidnapped Vivy Mitchell from his home on Monday, March 18, 2024.
There is no information available on the fate of 2 other people, who were also kidnapped at gunpoint from Vivy Mitchell on Monday, March 18, 2024.
On the night of Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the national police arrested 4 people in the locality of Bodwen, Jakmèl, Sudès department, suspected of having their hands dipped in criminal acts. Among those arrested by the Jakmèl police, there is Mackenson Joseph, who escaped from Port-au-Prince prison on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Mackenson Joseph was in the National Penitentiary for kidnapping and criminal association. This is what the Jakmèl national police announced, in a meeting with the press on Friday, March 22, 2024.
In less than 2 weeks, between Friday 8 and Wednesday 20 March 2024, more than 33 thousand people left their homes in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, to seek refuge in provincial cities, due to acts of terror and gang violence with weapons they are increasing without looking back. More than 60 percent of these displaced families managed to take public transport to go to the departments of Southeast, South, Grandans and Nip. It is a collection, on March 21, 2024, by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that took this information from 15 public transport vehicle stations.
Like the United States, the government of Canada has decided to deploy the military to ensure the safety of personnel and the Canadian embassy in Haiti. People on Delma saw the helicopter of the Canadian army, which was dropping off the Canadian military at the embassy, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. There are also pictures of the Canadian military, in position on the back of the Canadian embassy, that have appeared on social media.
There are still many helicopters circling, day and night, above the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Since Sunday, March 10, 2024, people have heard the noise of helicopters from time to time, above the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
The United Nations requires protection for those who defend human rights, for journalists and for all those who work within civil society organizations in Haiti. While applauding the political leaders who chose to be part of the President’s Transitional Council, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Portuguese Antonio Guterres, wished that the multinational force could be deployed as soon as possible, to guarantee security and political progress in the country. Haiti. This is what the spokesperson Antonio Guterres said in a press conference on Thursday, March 21, 2024. [ppsf emb rc apr 22/03/2024 14:38]
