The Haitian ambassador to the United States assured that the assassins of President Jovenel Moise were “professional” mercenaries.

Who is it on Wednesday they assassinated the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, they were mercenaries “professionals“What They disguised themselves as American agents and may have already fled the country, Haiti’s ambassador to Washington said.

“It was a well-planned attack and they were professionals», Declared the ambassador Bocchit Edmond to journalists. “We have a video and we think they were mercenaries“, he underlined.

The murderers presented themselves at the residence of the Haitian president as agents of the Drug Control Administration (DEA), but their behavior was not in line with that of members of the US agency, added Edmond.

The official also said that the first lady, Martine Moise, who was injured in the attack, She will be transferred to Miami for medical treatment. “I can tell you that arrangements have been made since this morning to transfer her to a Miami hospital,” he said.

The ambassador explained that an investigation was underway into the fate, motives and origins of the murderers, who, he said, spoke to each other in Spanish. He added that they may have left the country, possibly for the neighboring Dominican Republic.

“We don’t know if they are gone”, He said. “If they’re not in the country right now, there is only one way out and it is across borders because there are no planes.

He said civil aviation authorities they would have detected a private plane, but this movement across the border could have gone unnoticed.

(With information from AFP)

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