(7 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince - 7 July 2024
1. Posters of former President Jovenel Moise who was assassinated
2. Members of the interim government arriving for Mass
3. Priest arriving to start the Mass
4. Various of government members attending Mass during ceremony to mark the third year anniversary of the assassination of Moise
5. Priest Frantznel Limite
6. Mass
7. Priest during Mass
8. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Frantznel Limite, Priest:
"This morning the object of our prayer is in favor of President Jovenel Moïse, peace to his soul."
9. Members of the government
10. Transitional Council President Edgard Leblanc Fils; Prime Ministry Gary Conille
11. Fils speaking
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Edgard Leblanc Fils, Transitional Council President:
"Since the assassination the country became much more vulnerable; after the death of President Jovenel Moise, the country has experienced a surge of gang violence
and investigations will continue until all those involved are detained."
13. Leblanc ending his speech
14. Room with guests during Mass
15. Priest at end of Mass shaking hands of attendees
16. Trumpet player during ceremony
17. Members of the government leaving
STORYLINE:
Members of Haiti's transitional council on Sunday marked the third year anniversary of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Prime Minister Garry Conille, and the nine members of the appointed transitional council attended a Mass celebration.
President Moise was shot 12 times when a squad of gunmen invaded his home in Port-au-Prince killing him and wounding his wife, Martine Moise on the 7th of July 2021.
Several people had been arrested, including 11 men now in U.S. custody.
Prosecutors in the U.S. have alleged that there was a broad plot among conspirators in both Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to remove Moïse and benefit from contracts from a successor administration.
Among the people arrested are 18 former Colombian soldiers who are in custody in Haiti.
The President of the Transitional Council, Edgard Leblanc Fils, said that the country became much more vulnerable after the death of Moise and that investigations will continue until all those involved are detained.
Since the assassination, Haiti has experienced a surge of gang violence that led the then-prime minister, Ariel Henry, to request the deployment of an armed force.
The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti in late June, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.
Gangs have taken control of 80% of the capital, displacing thousands of people including 300,000 children according to the U.N Children’s Agency.
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