The Haitian police announced Sunday evening July 11 to have arrested a Haitian national “Who had political objectives” by recruiting the commando which assassinated President Jovenel Moïse on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. “It is an individual who entered Haiti aboard a private plane with political objectives”, said Léon Charles, director of the Haitian national police.
On his arrival in the country in June, Charles Emmanuel Sanon, 63, of Haitian nationality, was accompanied by several Colombian nationals, responsible for ensuring his safety, according to details provided during a press briefing in the presence of several ministers. .
“The mission then changed”, explained Léon Charles. “The mission was to arrest the President of the Republic and the operation was mounted from there: 22 other individuals then entered Haiti”, he added.
The interrogations carried out with the 18 Colombian citizens arrested since Wednesday allowed the Haitian police to learn that Charles Emmanuel Sanon had recruited the 26 members of the commando via the services of a Venezuelan security company called CTU, based in Florida.
“When we, the police, blocked the progress of these bandits after they had committed their crime, the first person that one of the attackers called was Charles Emmanuel Sanon. He made contact with two other people whom we consider to be intellectual authors of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse ”, said Léon Charles without detailing the identity of these two suspects.
Members of the FBI in Haiti
Members of the FBI, the State Department, the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Homeland Security arrived in Haiti on Sunday and met with the director general of the national police.
This assassination worsened the institutional crisis in which Haiti had already been plunged for months and which today leads three politicians to claim to be legitimate to ensure power by interim.
The United States delegation met in separate meetings with the main players in the political scene, including Prime Minister Claude Joseph.
“I met the American delegation and together we appreciated the resolution of the Senate which chose me as provisional President of the Republic”, for his part said Sunday evening on Twitter Joseph Lambert, President of the Senate.
Four days after the assassination of the Head of State, a precarious calm persists in Haiti given the gray areas surrounding this murder committed in the room of Jovenel Moïse, in his private residence yet under close surveillance. No Haitian policeman was injured during the operations to apprehend the alleged Colombian mercenaries, three of whom were killed.