Haiti: Gangs Continue to Raid and Burn Police Stations
Police Station stormed byarmed gangs in Haiti, July 2, 2024 Photo: @michaelcdeibert
July 3, 2024 Hour: 2:33 pm
As has become customary, the gang members set fire to a car belonging to the institution, recorded a video and posted it on social networks.
On Wednesday, official sources stated that in four days, gangs in Haiti stormed two police stations, looted them and set one on fire, demonstrating that they continue to ride roughshod over law enforcement today.
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The bandits attacked with automatic weapons the Saint-Charles sub-station, located in the commune of Carrefour, 7.87 kilometers from the capital, where they stole a dozen solar panels, and set fire to the premises to close their crime.
In Greisser, 27.3 kilometers from Port-au-Prince, after an intense battle between the police and the gang of the leader Ti Bébé Bougoy, the thugs made the officers run and took the police station for the second time.
According to the online newspaper Le Facteur Haiti, the criminal gang surrounded the unit, which was occupied in May, and then recaptured by a SWAT TEAM commando, who now had to escape for their lives.
As has become customary, the gang members set fire to a car belonging to the institution, recorded a video and posted it on social networks.
In the images they can be seen celebrating their victory and defying the high command of the HNP, and the Kenyan troops, considered invaders by the criminals.
Since yesterday, the Haitian National Police (HNP) has been in control of the Greisser police station, with a preliminary death toll of 25 people.
The number of fatalities could rise, because there are lifeless bodies in the houses that the gang members set on fire with their inhabitants inside.
In addition to the people killed by the armed bandits, extensive material damage was also reported. Both episodes against the forces of law and order occurred in the last four days, the one in Greisser on Sunday, and the one in Saint-Charles on Tuesday.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: The Independent-Le Nouvelliste-Le Facteur-HaitiLibre
