A young man whose identity is not revealed was executed on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 12, 2024, in Port-au-Prince, by agents of the Haitian National Police including those of the UDMO accompanied by heavily armed, hooded civilians, wearing black and blue T-shirts and jeans respectively. The action, according to testimonies, occurred more precisely on avenue Christophe, at the Carrefour located not far from the gas pump and the building housing the National Public Procurement Council (CNMP) around 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. .
THE HAITI FACTOR, November 13, 2024._High tensions reigned throughout the day of Tuesday, November 12, 2024, in certain places in downtown Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
This is the case at Avenue Christophe, Rue 4 and 6 and Avenue N, among others, where gunshots were heard.
According to testimonies collected from local residents, UDMO police officers wearing their commonly distinguished “cream and blue” uniforms, accompanied by hooded armed civilians, dressed in black T-shirts and blue jeans, patrolled the aforementioned areas at the following an alert surrounding a possible irruption of armed bandits.
At Avenue Christophe, the police carried out searches on certain passengers and pedestrians who frequented this road. There, they ordered a young man to stop walking and asked him to identify himself using his National Identification Card (CIN). able to do.
Add to this, the individual in question could not provide clear details to the police on his origin nor on the reasons why he was circulating without any identification in the Haitian capital in the current context, according to witnesses who confided at the agency.
Without asking him to pray, the police and armed, hooded civilians peppered him with bullets in the head around 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m., at the Carrefour located a few steps from the gas pump.
Until 7 o’clock in the evening, his body was still lying in blood on the public highway, we noted.
THE HAITI FACTOR (LFH)