Despite foreign troops’ pledge, Haiti’s gangs still run unimpeded

Port-au-Prince, Nov 19 (Prensa Latina) Months after the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti vowed that the days of local armed gangs were numbered, criminal groups still run unimpeded, to the point of bringing international air services to a halt.

November 19, 2024
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The Le Facteur Haiti digital newspaper has echoed public complaints questioning the foreign troops performance, who are having a hard time trying to prevent armed attacks in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas.

Gangs have already attacked the port, schools, universities, police stations, prisons, ministries, bank branches, community shops, the National Printing House, which published its first works in 1804, and set fire to a 96,000 square-meter warehouse in the free zone.

They also ransacked private cars, a religious seminary, the First Baptist Church in Haiti, founded more than 180 years ago, and more than a dozen pharmacies. In April this year, armed individuals set fire to the house of Frantz Elbe, then Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian National Police (HNP).

On top of this all, they opened fire on a Spirit Airlines plane amid a landing maneuver, injuring an air hostess.

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