Port-au-Prince, February 8, 2024 [AlterPresse] — Heavy gunfire continues to ring out on Thursday, February 8, 2024, in several neighborhoods of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. People were still on high tension on the night of Wednesday 7 to enter Thursday 8 February 2024.
Since Monday, February 5, 2024, because of the terror of gangs and guns, many families are fleeing from where they live in the areas of Sapotiy, Lagrenad and Ti Sous, Kafou commune.
As it has been for several days, the situation continues to worry, Thursday, February 8, 2024, after the symbolic day of February 7, 2024. Trade, schools, banks will not function in several communes of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, where there are barricades and various types of clashes.
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, a radio host was shot and wounded in the commune of Gwo Mòn, department of Latibonite, and was attacked by gangs and weapons of Ti Bwadòm. This terrible situation has pushed many families who have been forced to leave their places of residence since the 1950s, to seek refuge elsewhere, according to testimonies obtained by AlterPresse and AlterRadio.
Turn off the blood faucet. Stop counting the dead. Blood must not stop flowing as well as crying, with murders, kidnappings and rapes, multiplying in the last 3 years in the country of Haiti. It is the short cry of the monsignor of the Roman Catholic Church in Haiti, who asks Ariel Henry to make a wise decision for the good of the country, which is on the verge of falling flat on the ground.
Despite the movement to stand up, for several weeks, against the de facto government, which has not yielded any results for more than 30 months, Ariel Henry insists that he will not withdraw his body. Without being able to specify who gave him this authority and right, he said that he should continue to lead the country backward. He promises again that he will solve the problem of gang terror and guns before he goes to organize elections, in a recorded message he gave late at night on Wednesday 7 to enter Thursday 8 February 2024.
Ariel Henry declared war on the country with his speech on the night of 7 to 8 February 2024. This is the opinion of economist and politician Leslie Péan, in a collection he made on AlterPresse.
Kapap/North department, Okáy/South department, Gonayiv and Saint Mark/Latibonite department, Jakmèl/Southeast department, Jeremi/Grandans department, Miragwán/Nip department, Ench/Central Plateau department, Wanament/Northeast department, Pódpè/Northwest department, Ti Gwav and Gran Gwav on the national road number 2, Achayè/department West, on a distance of 32 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince: thousands of people, on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, went down the street to call for the chalbari behind the de facto government, which there has been a manfoube behavior for more than 30 months about the calmness of the population of the country of Haiti.
The movement to stand up against the de facto government of Ariel Henry must not stop at all on the territory of Haiti. It is the international community, especially the United States government, that keeps the de facto prime minister in the political direction of the country. All those demonstrating in the streets should stand in front of the houses of foreign ambassadors and ministers of the de facto government. It is the short cry of the main leader of the political party of Son of Desalin, Jean-Charles Moïse, who raised his voice against the brutality of the police on the protesters, before he sent his party’s sympathy to the family of the Bsap agent, killed by the police on Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
On Wednesday afternoon, February 7, 2024, the national police shot and killed 5 agents of the Protected Space Surveillance Brigade (Bsap) in Laboul, Petyonvil commune, under circumstances that are not yet clear. In this operation, the national police seized a car and a motorcycle, according to information obtained by AlterPresse and AlterRadio.
The Office of the Protection of Citizens and Citizens (Opc) wishes an independent commission to open an investigation properly, to shed light on the circumstances and in which conditions 5 Bsap agents died under the gunfire of the national police, on Wednesday afternoon, February 7, 2024 in Laboul, Petyonvil commune.
The de facto government should take all necessary measures to bring the Bsap agents under the command of the Haitian Armed Forces. This is what the Haitian Military Association sent to the de facto government, to avoid clashes between the police, Bsap agents and the Haitian Armed Forces.
A young man, who had a 38 gun in his hand, died on Tuesday night, February 6, 2024, in front of the Wanament police station, Northeast department, he was attacked along with many other assailants with weapons. [pfsf emb rc apr 08/02/2024 14:50]
