The warrant was issued by Judge Jean Wilner Morin, after the former official declined to appear last Friday before the investigating magistrate’s office.

Reports from police and human rights groups linked Monchéry to a bloody massacre in the northern neighborhood of this capital, that brutally ended the lives of dozens of people, including children.

Buildings and schools were shot up and destroyed, dozens of people shot and some burned alive, women were assaulted and raped, and hundreds were forcibly displaced from their homes.

Many bodies were burned and buried, while some were used as animal feed, all documented because only four days later the images flooded social media, causing international outrage.

Official reports also pointed to the former police officer and current leader of the G-9 gang alliance, Jimmy Chérisier, known as Barbecue, and former departmental delegate Pierre Richard Duplan as the perpetrators.

Previously, Judge Chavannes Etienne, who investigated the file, issued prohibitions to leave the country against Monchéry and Duplan.

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