The properties housed ministries, courts, port infrastructure, schools, among others.

The Haiti Libre digital newspaper reported that the capital is no longer the seat of state power, but a place where the law of the strongest is applied.

At this point, gang members have already attacked the port, schools, universities, police stations, prisons, ministries, bank branches, community stores, the National Printing House, which was first published in 1804, and set fire to a 96,000 square meter warehouse in the free zone.

They also attacked private cars, a religious seminary, the first Baptist Church in Haiti, founded over 180 years ago, and more than a dozen pharmacies, and in April 2024, as a demonstration that they are serious, they burned down the house of the then commander-in-chief of the Haitian National Police, Frantz Elbé.

Now their record is more notorious when they opened fire on an aircraft in the middle of a landing maneuver of the U.S. company Spirit Airlines, which ended up in the Dominican Republic with an injured stewardess.

Following the attack, an inspection of the aircraft flying to Port-au-Prince was carried out, and it was discovered that the bandits had already drilled holes in a Jet Blue and an American Airlines aircraft.

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