Government Commissioner Venson François is expecting Mercy on February 8 in Artibonite department in connection with his alleged links to Savien gang leader Luckson Elan.
Voice memos suggesting an understanding between the government official and the gang leader, who is suspected of being involved in the killing of police officers, went viral on social media.
On 25 January, six officers were executed and two others injured in the attacks on Liancourt police station. The perpetrators also stole two vehicles and several weapons, and put the agents’ bodies on display.
According to a Departmental Intelligence Service report to the Departmental Directorate of Artibonite (DDA), the attack was allegedly planned by three senior National Police officials, including two inspectors general and a division commissioner.
“Their primary objective is to cause chaos in Artibonite, which would result in the assassination by police officers of the St. Marc District Commander and the DDA,” reads the document leaked to the press.
In the same way, he could have aimed to incite the police against all commanders of the Artibonite jurisdiction, physically attack the director of the DDA and use elements of social media to steer opinion towards the institution’s failure, the statement said Report .
The officers’ killings sparked violent protests in that capital and other cities such as Gonaïves, Saint Marc and Cap Haitien.
In Port-au-Prince, agents attacked the residences of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the facilities at Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the same day that the head of government returned from the seventh summit of the Latin American Community-Caribbean States based in Argentina.
Shortly thereafter, Henry called for calm and ordered the police high command to deal with the protesters’ demands.
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