Haitian President Jovenel Moise is shot dead and his wife Martine Moise is shot

July 7, 2021

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For: EFE 07 of July 2021

The President of Haiti , Jovenel Moise, was killed this Wednesday by armed men who perpetrated an attack on his residence at dawn in the Pelerin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, said Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph.

In the assault the first lady, Martine Moise, who is receiving medical care, according to a statement read by Joseph on the radio.

“This morning, to At one in the morning, July 7, a group of unidentified people, who spoke in Spanish and English, assassinated the President of the Republic. The president has died from his injuries, “said the acting prime minister.

Joseph called for the population to calm down and assured that the “situation of country’s security is under control ”and condemned the assassination, which he described as“ an act of barbarism. ”

The murder occurs two months before the presidential and legislative elections called for the next 26 of September, an election in which Moise could not be a candidate .

Moise had called for the same date a referendum to approve a new Constitution, a project that did not have the support of the opposition or of the international community.

Haiti is going through a severe crisis policy since mid 2021 and lived his most serious moment on p asado February 7, the date on which Moise denounced that the opposition, with the support of judges, was plotting a coup.

At the same time, Haiti is going through a deep security crisis, which has been aggravated especially since the beginning of June by territorial struggles between armed gangs that are fighting for control of the poorest neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince.

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