Four men suspected of involvement in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have been indicted in the United States, where they have been transferred to stand trial. Moïse was killed in July 2021 in still unclear circumstances when a group of people broke into his residence in the capital Port-au-Prince. Not only are the Haitian security forces investigating the murder, but also the US forces, which are investigating both people with dual Haitian and US citizenship, and people suspected of being involved for other reasons, in the context of the close relations between the two countries .
The men indicted in the United States are Haitian-Americans James Solages and Joseph Vincent, among the first suspects arrested immediately after the attack, and Germán Rivera García, a former captain of the Colombian armed forces, who according to the Haitian authorities was among the perpetrators materials of the operation in Moïse’s house. The fourth man is Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian doctor and priest who lived in Florida and is believed to have been a leading figure in the planning of the bombing.
The US Justice Department said Solages, Vincent and Rivera García were indicted on charges of planning to kill a person in a country other than the United States and providing materials and assistance to do so. Sanon, on the other hand, is accused of illegally stealing various goods from Haiti, including about twenty bulletproof vests. The four will appear Wednesday in federal court in Miami, Florida.
A total of seven people suspected of being involved in the Moïse attack are in the custody of the American authorities: dozens more are in pre-trial detention in Haiti, where however the investigations seem to have been rather stagnant for some time.
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