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Assassins that killed Haitian President Jovenel Moïse claimed to be associated with The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, according to The Western Journal.
“DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down.”
The assassination of #Haiti's puppet tyrant Jovenel Moïse was well-planned and well-executed. The assassins presented themselves as DEA agents and disarmed his security. The mercenaries were described as white, and their helper / translator spoke in English and Haitian Creole. pic.twitter.com/oY5kmNICBX
— Madame Boukman – Justice 4 Haiti 🇭🇹 (@madanboukman) July 8, 2021
“These were mercenaries.”
“The police are engaged in a battle with the assailants.”
“We are pursuing them so that, in a gunfight, they meet their fate or in gunfight they die, or we apprehend them.”
“A group of unidentified individuals, some of them speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus fatally wounded the head of state,” the prime minister stated.
“We found 12 holes in the president’s body.”
“The president’s office and bedroom were ransacked.”
From The Western Journal:
Three police officers who had been held hostage by the killers had been freed, Charles said, according to the Herald.
Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has said he is now in charge of the island nation.
Joseph declared martial law, according to the Herald.
Bocchit Edmond, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, said “well-trained professionals, killers, commandos” carried out the attack, according to The Times.
Communications Minister Pradel Henriquez said some attackers were Haitian.
Among them “were individuals who spoke English, who spoke Spanish, who entered the home of a president,” he said, according to the Herald.
The Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste said Moïse was shot multiple times.
“We found 12 holes in the president’s body,” Carl Henry Destin, Pétion-Ville deputy justice of the peace, told the outlet, according to the Herald. “The president’s office and bedroom were ransacked.”
