Since last Thursday, unprecedented violence has been recorded in Haiti, marked by the increase in clashes between police and armed gangs, the intensification of shootings in neighborhoods and the increase in the number of deaths and injuries.
He Government of Haiti has declared state of emergency and the Curfew for a renewable period of 72 hours in the western department, where Port-au-Prince is located, due to the “deterioration of security” and the attacks the day before on two prisons by armed gangs.
In a statement, the Executive said that to “restore order and take appropriate measures to restore the situation control over the situation“, the curfew applies on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.
This measure does not affect on-duty members of the public, firefighters, ambulance drivers, healthcare workers and duly identified journalists.
“The law enforcement authorities have been mandated to use all legal means at their disposal to ensure that the ceasefire is respected and to arrest violators,” adds the note signed by Patrick Michel Boivert, who as prime minister acts in the absence of the ceasefire. Ariel Hendrik.
This measure is taken in the West department due to the deterioration of security, especially in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, “characterized by increasingly violent criminal acts committed by armed gangs causing mass displacement of the population, and consistently over ” everything involving kidnappings and murders of peaceful citizens, violence against women and children, looting and theft of public and private property.”
In its text, the government refers to the attacks on the country’s two largest prisons, La Capitale and Croix des Bouquets, “which caused deaths and injuries among the ranks of police and prison staff, the escape of dangerous prisoners and acts of vandalism “. of those places,” actions that “endanger national security,” the text adds.
Source: EITB
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