Prince Port. Two years after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the judiciary is still a long way from providing evidence of the crime that exacerbated the already deep socio-political, economic and security crisis in Haiti.
The President was brutally shot dead at his private home in this capital in an attack that seriously injured his wife, Martine Étienne, about which few answers remain.
The investigation was paralyzed for months and was led by at least five coroners, most recently Walter Wesser Voltaire, who has revived the case in recent weeks and scheduled several hearings.
On Thursday, the current ministers for planning and economy, Ricard Pierre and Patrick Boisvert, respectively, as well as the head of the drinking water and sanitation directorate Guyto Edouard and the directors-general of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Agency for Protected Areas were summoned.
However, more than 30 people remain detained without charge in the national prison, including 20 former Colombian soldiers accused of the assassination.
“The call continues to bring those responsible for this heinous crime to justice. “His assassination plunged the country into a deeper political crisis, exacerbated by an unprecedented security collapse, with armed criminal gangs waging a regime of terror and violence in most parts of Port-au-Prince,” the police chief said Thursday the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, María Isabel Salvador.
Addressing the UN Security Council, Salvador regretted that the situation was aggravated by the humanitarian, human rights and socio-economic crisis the country was facing.
The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights earlier advocated the creation of a special court to try the suspects, suggesting that dropping the investigation could be a strategy to strip the case of its core and arrive at a parody. of judgment.
The platform encouraged Haitian authorities to consider other proposals, including special courts in Cambodia, Lebanon, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic, and extraordinary and criminal chambers in Africa and Kosovo, in the face of the national judicial system’s inaction.
These courts, to which national and international judges belong, are guided by national law with regard to the procedure and the indictment and include the internal legal system, the instance said.
Meanwhile in the United States, one of the 11 arrested, businessman Rodolphe Jaar, has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting his involvement in the conspiracy.
Another 10 could face trials with life sentences or decades in prison by the middle of this month.
The lethargy of the judiciary reveals the impunity that is eating away at the country, despite pledges by current Prime Minister Ariel Henry to help the investigation.
Two years later, neither the crime nor the political dissensions seem to have a medium-term answer, while the violence of the gangs calls into question the intentions to lead Haiti on a democratic and peaceful path.