Haiti president assassination: 2 Haitian Americans among 6 arrested
By Evens Sanon and Danica Coto
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Assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti
A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday, with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two men believed to be Haitian Americans one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.
Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections, told The Associated Press that James Solages was among six people arrested in the 36 hours since the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moise by gunmen at his home overnight on Wednesday.
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2 detained in slaying of Haiti president
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Two men believed to be Haitian Americans one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.
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Jul. 8 2021 @ 11:05pm
ADDS THAT PROTESTERS ALSO WANT POLICE TO HAND OVER THE DETAINEES WHO ARE ALIVE - People pressure police to hand over two men who were arrested and the bodies of two men who were brought in by police after they were killed by police, in order to burn them in retaliation for the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, at a police station of Petion Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. According to National Police Director Leon Charles, the dead and detained are suspects in Moïse s July 7 assassination. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
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2 Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti president
Two suspects in the assassination of Haiti s President Jovenel Moise are moved to be displayed to the press at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. Moise was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
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