Activist Réginald Dumé criticized the police’s actions against the residents of Carrefour Feuilles, who took to the streets earlier on the week to demand the return of a climate of peace, while the area is besieged by armed gangs.

Dumé demanded that the Government adopt urgent measures that allow the free movement of citizens and the reduction of violence, especially in the capital. He also denounced Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s failure to fulfill his commitments to alleviate the economic situation, while the majority of citizens have difficulties to meet their basic needs.

On Monday, hundreds of people demonstrated in the capital denouncing gang violence and the alleged complicit silence of the Superior Council of the National Police, and called on authorities to take responsibilities for and restore the climate of peace in the country, but they were gassed by the police in the vicinity of the Prime Minister’s official residence.

“We organized this protest to warn that Carrefour-Feuilles will become a land of bandits if the government does not act,” one of the protesters, who also set fire to tires and called for Henry’s resignation, stated.

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