Haiti assured that it detained one of the alleged intellectual authors of the murder of Moise

The Haitian authorities assured to have arrested this Sunday one of the intellectuals presumed authors of the assassination of the president of the country Jovenel Moise, identified as Christian Emmanuel Sanon.

Sanon, a Haitian doctor whose usual residence has been in Florida for 20 years, has been named as one of those responsible for the Moise assassination plan., as a newspaper source pointed out ‘Miami Herald’.

Before this arrest, the Haitian Police have published the complete list with the 20 names of the suspects detained and identified to date, including two Haitian-American citizens.

With Sanon, there would already be three arrested with this nationality. James Solages and Joseph Vincent are the other two Haitian Americans in police custody.

The latter two told the Haitian authorities that their goal was not to assassinate the president, but to execute a 2019 arrest warrant against him and to urge Sanon to the presidency, as indicated. ‘Miami Herald’.

Also, this Sunday Haitian police have confirmed the arrest of another former Colombian military officer, Gersaín Mendivelso Jaimes, bringing a total of 18 citizens of that country arrested for their involvement in the murder. while five other Colombians are on the run.

The Colombians arrested as alleged perpetrators of the assassination of the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, were reportedly hired by an American security company in Florida.

Jaimes Gersain Mendivelso would be mentioned in the WhatsApp chats of the other captured, for this reason it is presumed that his role, if he is guilty, This would have been linked to the coordination of the group of other mercenaries.

According to Semana magazine, the military mentions “Mendivelso” in a WhatsApp group, only by his last name, who was a person located in the Dominican Republic and with whom the people who wanted to participate in the operation should contact.

During this time, an audio message assigned to Martine moise, the widow of the assassinated Haitian president, Jovenel Moise, was published this Saturday on his official Twitter account, in which he stated that he is “lively“And also launched political messages.

Haitian government spokesperson confirmed to news agency EFE the authenticity of the recording in which is heard the voice attributed to the widow of Moise, who is hospitalized in the United States and, according to the latest information available, was in critical condition.

In the audio, two minutes and twenty seconds, the voice attributes the armed attack to “mercenaries” and links the motive for the assassination to the president’s desire to hold a referendum to approve a new constitution.

(With information from Europa Press)

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