Haitain president’s killers posed as DEA agents

The assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday, July 7, were “professional” mercenaries who posed as United States DEA (Drug  Enforcement Agency) operatives and may have already fled the country, said the Haitian ambassador in Washington.

“It was a well-planned attack and they were professionals,” Ambassador Bocchit Edmond told reporters. “We have a video and we believe they were mercenaries.”

The killers appeared at the Haitian president’s residence as agents of the DEA.

The ambassador said that the first lady, Martine Moise, who was injured in the attack, will be transferred to Miami for medical treatment.

The ambassador said that an investigation was being carried out into the whereabouts, motivations, and origins of the murderers, who, he indicated, spoke to each other in Spanish.

He added that they may have left the country, probably to the neighboring Dominican Republic which has closed its border with Haiti.

“We don’t know if they left,” he said. “If they are not in the country at the moment, there is only one way to get out and it is through the borders because there are no planes.”      He said that civil aviation authorities would have detected a private plane, but that the movement across the border could have gone unnoticed.

Agence France-Presse (AFP)